Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe


This is a worthy read even if you’ve read all the contemporaries. It isn’t so much a book about the opioid crisis (although it is that), as much as it is a real-life Succession.

Reads for the most part like a novel. Necessarily gets in the weeds a bit when the courts and investigators get to involved, but stays readable.

Those guys are real villains. If only they had a trace of self awareness.