Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Arthur Sackler, physician, CEO, quasi-journalist and patriarch of Purdue Pharma, by dint of personality, drive and the desire for “having it all,” spawned a pharmaceutical empire — and global scourge — built on greed, indifference, obfuscation and, cloaking it all, privacy. With Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe proved a storyteller extraordinaire.  And, no less, in Empire of Pain, in which Keefe opens a Pandora’s box, a tangle of lies and silence, a cast of vividly memorable characters and a narrative as riveting as any thriller. Unputdownable!