Ian Sansom

Plain tales of crookedness and corruption: Rogues reviewed

An assortment of the author’s New Yorker pieces, each article ending with an updating note, is an entertaining if deeply disturbing compilation of extraordinary wickedness in today’s world

Site of the Lockerbie air crash, December 1988. One of the most memorable pieces in the book is on Ken Dornstein, whose brother David was one of the bombing victims. [Tom Stoddart/Getty]
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  • Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

    Patrick Radden Keefe

    Picador, pp. 368, £20

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