Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler DynastyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing. "A real life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its taila masterful work of narrative reportage. Laura Miller,

not a transfer on top of the material

whose misadventures in the culture wars—on both sides of the Atlantic—serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political

an exiled aristocrat

dark hold on the author

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment

There is the lingering regret of her childlessness

Poetry and science

through Guatemala and Mexico

whose family's interweaving obstacles reveal the lingering grasp of the Spanish Civil War--as well as chilling definitions of fortune and fear

But what if they were

potent book you have to set aside every few pages just to catch your breath

and finally into the Atlantic Ocean