Rogues

 Rogues: The True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe, 368 pages.

This book pretends at more cohesion than it truly has. It would probably be more honest to market it as an anthology of Patrick Radden Keefe's journalism, which happens to be mostly focused on crime. That structural gripe out of the way, Radden Keefe's writing is very good, and I found myself drawn into chapters that I had little interest in when I started. He does an excellent job building suspense without making real events feel like fiction; as well as presenting what feels like a fair and balanced perspective in many cases. I would recommend this book to fans of the author's other work.