'Eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting . . . A preternaturally attentive reporter at work.'
- Observer
'A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you'll be turning pages for hours . . . Highly entertaining'
- Los Angeles Times
'Keefe follows his award-winning opus with a collection of 12 pen portraits . . . that are no less compelling for being sketched on a smaller canvas.'
- Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2022
'Reflects the collective preoccupations of the unsettling era in which we now live: mass shootings and terrorism, mental health issues, and the many flavors of financial corruption . . . Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller, able to create suspense with his descriptions of how these crimes unfolded.'
- Washington Post
'Each [piece] could be a book in its own right . . . [Keefe] has an eye for the smallest detail that reveals something big.'
- Sunday Times
'A wonderful book, not only because Keefe's prose is masterful, but because he has a preternatural gift for reading people.'
- National Public Radio
'Extraordinary'
- Wall Street Journal
'One of the finest non-fiction writers of his generation'
- Toronto Star
'A king of contemporary nonfiction'
- Entertainment Weekly
'Iconic . . . Keefe delivers masterpieces'
- Oprah Daily
'I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it . . . he's a national treasure.'
- Rachel Maddow