Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Chatter | 2005 | Buy |
| The Snakehead | 2009 | Buy |
| Say Nothing | 2018 | Buy |
| Empire of Pain | 2021 | Buy |
| Rogues | 2022 | Buy |
| London Falling | 2026 | Buy |
Patrick Radden Keefe writes long. His books take years of reporting — interviews, documents, court records, letters — and compress that research into narratives that read like thrillers while staying scrupulously factual. He’s a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he developed the form across shorter pieces before applying it at book length.
Say Nothing, published in 2018, follows the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a widowed Belfast mother of ten, into the full history of the IRA and the Troubles. It’s the book that brought Keefe to a wide general readership, and for good reason: it treats the history as alive and unresolved rather than settled. Empire of Pain arrived in 2021 and tracks the Sackler family’s role in the opioid epidemic across three generations, from the marketing of OxyContin back through earlier family members who shaped American psychiatry and advertising.
Rogues, from 2022, collects his New Yorker profiles and investigations — con artists, arms dealers, food fraud — and shows the range of stories he can apply his method to. His 2026 book London Falling continues his career-long interest in crime and the structures that enable it.