The story of the Sackler Dynasty, Purdue Pharma, and their involvement in the opioid crisis that has created millions of addicts, even as it generated billions of dollars in profit.
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as two previous critically-acclaimed books, The Snakehead, and Chatter. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He grew up in Boston and now lives in New York
A work of nonfiction that has the dramatic scope and moral power of
a Victorian novel . . . A gripping tale of capitalism at its most
innovative and ruthless that Keefe tells with a masterful grasp of
the material.
*Observer*
There are so many "they did what?" moments in this book, when your
jaw practically hits the page
*Sunday Times*
This is no dense medical tome, but a page-turner with a villainous
family to rival the Roys in Succession, and one where every chapter
ends with the perfect bombshell.
*Esquire*
The story of the Sacklers and OxyContin is a parable of the modern
era of philanthropy being deployed to burnish the reputations of
financiers and entrepreneurs . . . [A] tour-de-force
*Financial Times*
Put simply, this book will make your blood boil . . . a devastating
portrait of a family consumed by greed and unwilling to take the
slightest responsibility or show the least sympathy for what it
wrought . . . a highly readable and disturbing narrative.
*New York Times Book Review*
An engrossing (and frequently enraging) tale of striving, secrecy
and self-delusion . . . Even when detailing the most sordid
episodes, Keefe’s narrative voice is calm and admirably restrained,
allowing his prodigious reporting to speak for itself. His portrait
of the family is all the more damning for its stark lucidity.
*New York Times*
A true tragedy in multiple acts. It is the story of a family that
lost its moorings and its morals . . . Written with novelistic
family-dynasty and family-dynamic sweep, Empire of Pain is a
pharmaceutical Forsythe Saga, a book that in its way is addictive,
with a page-turning forward momentum.
*Boston Globe*
Explosive . . . Keefe marshals a large pile of evidence and deploys
it with prosecutorial precision . . . Keefe is a gifted storyteller
who excels at capturing personalities.
*Washington Post*
An air-tight indictment of the family behind the opioid crisis . .
. [an] impressive exposé
*Los Angeles Times*
A damning portrait of the Sacklers, the billionaire clan behind the
OxyContin epidemic . . . [Keefe] has a knack for crafting lucid,
readable descriptions of the sort of arcane business arrangements
the Sacklers favored.
*Slate*
Keefe has a way of making the inaccessible incredibly digestible,
of morphing complex stories into page-turning thrillers, and he's
done it again with Empire of Pain . . . A scathing — but
meticulously reported — takedown of the extended family behind
OxyContin. It's equal parts juicy society gossip and historical
record of how they built their dynasty and eventually pushed Oxy
onto the market.
*Entertainment Weekly*
He [Patrick Radden Keefe] adopts a calmly astonished tone as he
tells a shocking story of callousness, cover-ups and monumental
greed.
*Guardian*
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