Empire of Pain

A gripping, multi-award-winning masterpiece of investigative reporting exposing the rise of the Sackler dynasty and the roots of the opioid crisis!

About the Book: The Sackler name once adorned the walls of the world’s most prestigious institutions—Harvard, Oxford, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Louvre. Celebrated as monumental philanthropists, they were among the richest families on earth. Yet the true source of their immense fortune remained shrouded in mystery until the devastating truth emerged: the Sacklers were the masterminds behind Purdue Pharma, the makers and aggressive marketers of OxyContin, a blockbuster painkiller that became the catalyst for the catastrophic opioid epidemic.

In Empire of Pain, award-winning journalist Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively chronicles three generations of the Sackler family. This ferociously compelling, jaw-dropping work of narrative non-fiction is both a monumental feat of investigative journalism and a devastating parable of twenty-first-century corporate greed.

Key Features & Benefits:

• Critically Acclaimed Bestseller: Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year, and named one of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021.

• Masterclass in Investigative Reporting: Exhaustively researched and brilliantly written by acclaimed journalist Patrick Radden Keefe.

• Exposes a Global Tragedy: Delves deep into the corporate mechanics behind the opioid crisis, tracing how aggressive marketing fueled an international addiction epidemic.

• Riveting Narrative Style: Reads like an absorbing psychological drama while remaining a fiercely documented work of historical reality.