- Title:
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (MP3)
- Written by:
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Patrick Radden Keefe
- Read by:
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Patrick Radden Keefe
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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18 hours 8 minutes
- MP3 size:
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657 MB
- Published:
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July 01 2021
- Available Date:
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July 01 2021
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867544289
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Biography; Chemistry; True Crime
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Empire of Pain is the highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, told by Patrick Radden Keefe, the 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, 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.