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A review by ethanhedman
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
4.0
The woman next to me on the plane when I finished this snored louder than the two jet engines on the wings.
That said this book is great, very much on par with Keefe’s other work I am familiar with ‘Say Nothing’. My one complaint would be that it is overtly focused on the morally abhorrent Sackler family and seldomly gives intimate views into the other side of the coin, the victims. This perspective is acknowledged in the closing chapters. Very well researched and justifiably scathing work of narrative nonfiction.
That said this book is great, very much on par with Keefe’s other work I am familiar with ‘Say Nothing’. My one complaint would be that it is overtly focused on the morally abhorrent Sackler family and seldomly gives intimate views into the other side of the coin, the victims. This perspective is acknowledged in the closing chapters. Very well researched and justifiably scathing work of narrative nonfiction.