The Sunday Times Bestseller
BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'
Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, OxyContin and the opioid crisis.
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, award-winning journalist and host of the Wind of Change podcast Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of twenty-first-century greed.
| ISBN: | 9781529063103 |
| Publication date: | 3rd March 2022 |
| Author: | Patrick Radden Keefe |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 560 pages |
| Primary Genre | Business and Management |
| Other Genres: |
The Sunday Times Bestseller
BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'
Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, OxyContin and the opioid crisis.
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, award-winning journalist and host of the Wind of Change podcast Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of twenty-first-century greed.
Empire of Pain features in the following genres: Business and Management, True crime, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Business ethics and social responsibility, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Economics, Finance, Business and Management, True stories: general, Biographies & Autobiographies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Manufacturing industries, Industry and industrial studies, Social and ethical issues, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences, Crime and criminology, Social services and welfare, criminology
Empire of Pain is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Empire of Pain was written by Patrick Radden Keefe and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Empire of Pain has 560 pages
£11.69
