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I learned a ton about so many fascinating topics including how Mark Burnett is responsible for Trump’s rise to power, how the brother of a victim of the Lockerbie bombing appears to have solved the case, and how significant numbers of collectible wines are fakes. It is a book that you can easily pick up and put down because each story is distinct.

Not only does Keefe write about fascinating people who engage in all sorts of illicit activities but he manages but to make each story such a page turner. I would finish one and then say oh I’ll just read one more until I reached the end of the book. I am a huge Patrick Radden Keefe fan- his book Empire of Pain is both chilling and fascinating and I read this fabulous collection of pieces from The New Yorker in one sitting. 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 "worst of the worst," among other bravura works of literary journalism. As Keefe says in his preface, "They 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."

Rogues brings together a dozen of Patrick Radden Keefe’s most celebrated articles from The New Yorker on the many ways people behave badly.