Overview
Ā«Keefe ha hecho carrera sumergiĆ©ndose en personajes fascinantes, en eso es el mejor. [...] En Maleantes regresa con su altĆsimo rigor periodĆstico y la misma pasiĆ³n de siempre por desvelar misterios, con un resultado inconfundibleĀ». -New York Times Book Review
Ā«Keefe es un narrador virtuosoĀ». -The Washington Post
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Con el fascinante estilo que le caracteriza, Patrick Radden Keefe ofrece en este libro una compleja panorĆ”mica del lado oscuro del ser humano. AquĆ retrata, entre otros personajes, al traficante de armas Monzer al-Kassar, apodado Ā«el prĆncipe de MarbellaĀ» y perseguido incansablemente por un agente de la D.E.A., a la controvertida Ā«abogada del diabloĀ» que lucha contra la pena de muerte representando a los peores criminales, al Chapo GuzmĆ”n y su vida tras huir de una prisiĆ³n de alta seguridad, o al cĆ©lebre delincuente holandĆ©s William Holleeder y los esfuerzos de su propia hermana para lograr su encarcelaciĆ³n.
Maleantes recoge doce perfiles de estafadores, truhanes, asesinos y rebeldes, gente que nada a contracorriente y cuya vida excepcional, para bien y para mal, invita al lector a reflexionar sobre temas como la esencia del mal, del poder, del crimen y de la corrupciĆ³n, pero tambiĆ©n sobre el coraje de quienes decidieron enfrentarse a ellos.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothingāand one of the most decorated journalists of our timeātwelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and intrigue.
"An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing." āNPR
āFast-paced...Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller." āThe Washington Post
Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface, āThey reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.ā
Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death penalty attorney who represents the āworst of the worst,ā among other bravura works of literary journalism.
The appearance of his byline in The New Yorker is always an event. And collected, here, for the first-time, readers can see his work form an enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.
This book title, Maleantes: Historias reales de estafadores, asesinos, rebeldes e impostores / Ro gues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks, ISBN: 9788418052989, by Patrick Radden Keefe, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (October 24, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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