Patrick Radden Keefe’s searing investigation into the Sackler family won the Baillie Gifford prize, and it’s only fair that it should head up our business picks too. But as Covid has changed attitudes to work, and Facebook becomes an ever bigger presence in our lives, there has been no shortage of intriguing books on business and technology.
The winner of this year’s Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction, this is a meticulously researched, gripping and fury-inducing tale of the Sackler family, whose firm Purdue Pharma created and aggressively marketed the painkiller OxyContin, which fuelled the American opioid crisis. The Sacklers’ greed, corruption and apparent indifference to the suffering of its customers are shown on page after page of this shocking book by Patrick Radden Keefe, a
