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  "description": "Patrick Radden Keefe has a knack — hell, actually, let's call it a gift — a gift for crafting truly compelling retellings and detailed nonfiction narratives. He did it in Say Nothing , Empire of Pain and he did it in The Snakehead . That's not quite what he did here. Rogues isn't a single narrative, it's a series of them, colocated, thematically similar and not at all interrelated. There are wine forgers, death row defense attorneys, family tragedies, crooks and — well — Anthony Bourdain (I assume he's the rogue in all this). That all of these are so brief, focused and engaging is a credit to the author and, having read his other books, makes me wish he had expanded each to the same length and depth of the others because I know he would do them justice. I can't offer any criticism of this, all I can offer is an interest in hearing more and having the author write it. I suppose that won't happen, but I do hope he's working away at something new.",
  "path": "/reading/books/9780385548519/rogues",
  "publishedAt": "2025-03-07T00:00:00Z",
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  "tags": [
    "nonfiction",
    "true crime"
  ],
  "title": "Rogues"
}