Hardback: Empire of Pain (2021) is the gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium and Oxycontin, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing (2018).
The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis-an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people.
In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality.
Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed.
Empire of Pain (2021) is the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2021 and and the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography. It was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2021 and longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. It was also selected for The Washington Post's "10 Best Books of 2021" list.
Empire of Pain is dedicated to all those who have lost someone to the crisis.
About the author: Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The Snakehead, Chatter and Say Nothing. Say Nothing received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, as well as the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the “10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade.” His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Slate, New York, and The New York Review of Books.
He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the New America Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
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