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EMPIRE OF PAIN paperback launch with Patrick Radden Keefe

Location Greedy Reads Remington 320 West 29th Street Baltimore, MD 21211
Date Friday, November 11, 2022 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Duration   3 hours
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This event is presented in partnership with Baltimore Beat. Please note that registration does not reserve a seat; this event is first come first served. But we appreciate your registration as we prepare! Register for this event in advance:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/empire-of-pain-paperback-launch-with-patrick-radden-keefe-tickets-405019774047

Patrick Radden Keefe joins us for the paperback release of EMPIRE OF PAIN. Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability.
 
A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.

Patrick Radden Keefe will be introduced by Brandon Soderberg, Director Of Operations and cofounder of Baltimore Beat.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal, and was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of the decade by Entertainment Weekly. His previous books are The Snakehead and Chatter. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change.

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