{"product_id":"empire-of-pain","title":"Empire of Pain","description":"\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER and EDITORS' CHOICE * WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR NON-FICTION * J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE FINALIST * A BARACK OBAMA FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, whose fortune was built on Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSay Nothing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard,  the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the  richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was  vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and  marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid  crisis.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e is the saga of three  generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the  world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early  twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich,  Connecticut and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington,  D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more  potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting  doctors, influencing the FDA, and downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their  company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used  to evade accountability.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA masterpiece of narrative reporting, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e is a ferociously compelling study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation  of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.","brand":"Patrick Radden Keefe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":51567309881560,"sku":"9780385697569","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2770\/5320\/files\/cover-9780385697569.jpg?v=1776280359","url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/fr\/products\/empire-of-pain","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}