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The highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, 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 and writing, 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.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Industry & industrial studies Manufacturing industries

• Full title: Empire of Pain
• Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560
• EAN: 9781529063073
• ISBN: 1529063078
• ID: 33513550
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Weight: 688 g
• Dimensions: 189 × 371 × 44 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. April 2021

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