Astrid seems to delight in the various disguises she must don to evade her brother’s henchmen. And when they succeed, the results can also be explosive and disastrous, as with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, or Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.Īlso, it’s clear that many of these people, even those in mortal danger, are getting a little thrill out of what they’re doing. When they fail, the results can be explosive and disastrous, as in Bishop’s case. In a big world, these people want to be main characters. Astrid wants to finally escape the shadow of her domineering brother and show him she can be as tough as any man Ken wants people to understand how important his brother’s life was to him Amy wants people to recognize how much smarter she is than the people who denied her what she felt she was entitled to.
On some level, everyone in “Rogues,” good and bad, is seeking importance. Patrick Radden Keefe's "Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks" is a collection his best essays from The New Yorker. Sid Gilman, a prestigious doctor who was implicated in an insider trading scheme, confessed that he was compelled to pass secret information to a broker from Steven Cohen’s trading firm not for personal gain, but because the broker reminded him of his son, who had died by suicide. Even when the subjects aren’t related, family ties can crop up.
Amy Bishop, who murdered her colleagues in a fit of pique over being denied tenure and was later revealed to have been responsible for the death of her brother, Seth, years earlier. Ken Dornstein, who devoted much of his adult life to finding those responsible for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed his brother David. There’s Astrid Holleeder, who turned on her gangster brother, Wim, and now lives in hiding for fear of reprisals. In “ Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks” (out June 28), he collects 12 of his best essays from The New Yorker, demonstrating his ability to illuminate and illustrate what he calls “the permeable membrane separating the licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, and the power of denial.”įamily is a common thread through many of Keefe’s essays. Dorchester’s own Patrick Radden Keefe has achieved significant renown for his well-researched literary journalism, including “Empire of Pain,” his expose on the Sackler family and their complicity in the opioid epidemic, and “Say Nothing,” which explored the role of the IRA in the murder of Jean McConville.
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