![]() In one 1996 email, Richard Sackler, Purdue’s chairman and president, demands the company become as feared as a “tiger with claws, teeth and balls”. Nonetheless, the Sacklers’ indifference and smugness rise off the pages like steam from a sewer. Keefe raises the possibility he was placed under surveillance, an attempt to intimidate him and his family. Indeed, they sought to derail publication. It is a chilling and mesmerizing read, “substantially built on the family’s own words”. Empire of Pain is filled with firsthand interviews and takeaways from confidential and original documents. Keefe’s book builds upon The Family that Built an Empire of Pain, a 2017 long read. By the numbers, opioids have killed more than 450,000 in the US in two decades. Since 1999, opioid-related deaths have risen more than fivefold. Like Say Nothing, Empire of Pain is drenched in misery, this time the byproduct of Ox圜ontin, the go-to drug for Purdue. ![]() He even solved the mystery behind a disappearance. ![]() ![]() His 2019 bestseller, Say Nothing, chillingly examined the convergence of youth, zealotry and destruction in Northern Ireland. Keefe is a veteran writer at the New Yorker. The Sackler name came to dot the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, Tate Modern and the Louvre. ![]() His Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty lays bare the price exacted by the family’s drive for wealth and social mountaineering. In Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe methodically and meticulously chronicles this tale of woe and crisis, indifference and corruption. ![]()
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