author: Patrick Radden Keefe
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
For me this took a while to find its’ legs, but after about 75 pages I couldn’t put it down. Keefe does a tremendous job of weaving together history, politics and violence into a riveting, surprising and educational story of how the Troubles still echo through modern issues. Highly recommend.
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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…