02448cam a2200385 i 4500 567156135 TxAuBib 20220630120000.0 220201s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021047117 9780385548519 hardcover 0385548516 hardcover TxAuBib rda Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-, author. Rogues : true stories of grifters, killers, rebels, and crooks / Patrick Radden Keefe. True stories of grifters, killers, rebels, and crooks. First edition. New York : Doubleday, 2022. xv, 348 pages. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The Jefferson bottles -- Crime family -- The avenger -- The empire of edge -- A loaded gun -- the hunt for el Chapo -- Winning -- Swiss bank heist -- The Prince of Marbella -- The worst of the worst -- Buried secrets -- Journeyman. ROGUES brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface "They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial." Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death penalty attorney who represents the "worst of the worst," among other bravura works of literary journalism. The appearance of his byline in The New Yorker is always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them. 20220630. Swindlers and swindling. Crime. Investigative reporting. Forgers. Money laundering. Journalism United States. Criminals. Criminal investigation. Organized crime.