![]() ![]() Until 2019, when he was convicted of multiple crimes and locked up for life in an American prison, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán tightened his grip on the Sinaloa cartel by paying for baptisms and bankrolling ostensibly legal businesses. But the international dragnet isn’t always a match for crime bosses who mount populist charm offensives. Drug Enforcement Administration had an astonishing 80-plus offices in more than 60 countries. Whether his subject is a drug cartel kingpin, a Wall Street swindler or an amoral weapons dealer, his stories don’t lack for memorable facts and elegant aphorisms. ![]() Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks collects a dozen pieces he’s penned as a staff writer for The New Yorker. If Say Nothing confirmed that he’s among the finest true-crime storytellers working today, Keefe’s new book suggests he won’t soon relinquish that status. Then, just as I was completing the manuscript, I made a startling discovery.” His digging essentially solved the case. ![]() His main concern? That those who knew “the whole truth of this dark saga”-the 1972 kidnapping and murder of Jean McConville, a Belfast mother of ten-“would take it with them to their graves. Near the end of his enthralling 2019 book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe recalls the frustration he felt while trying to solve a cold case that had stymied detectives for almost fifty years. ![]()
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