The inspiration behind the Netflix TV series Painkillers, starring Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick.
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'This is no dense medical tome, but a page-turner with a villainous family to rival the Roys in Succession, and one where every chapter ends with the perfect bombshell.' Esquire
The highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.
The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis-an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people.
In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed.
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD 'WINNER OF WINNERS' AWARD
Format: Paperback
Page Count: 432 Pages
Imprint: Picador
Published: April 2024
ISBN: 9781529063073
