Empire of Pain

Empire of PainAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES 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 A 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 Say

But a year after his death

and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty years

and heart-wrenching

It is the story of navigating divorce

At the age of nineteen

deceivingly bloody thriller that follows Agatha as she uses one day on the famous six-hour morning train from Toronto to Montreal as a mini writing retreat to finish her novel

the author and illustrator of the internationally bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series

“The Last Letter is a haunting

Saida’s daughter

and options

But Carolyn has accounted for this

'The kind of crime fiction that eventually becomes social history' Literary Review