Jane's Reviews > Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

3.5 stars

While the quality of the writing in the 12 essays in this book is probably the same for all 12, my interest level varied a great deal. I found some of them very interesting and some of them quite boring.

The most interesting to me were the essays The Avenger (about the brother of one of the victims on Pan Am flight 103; I knew the mother of one of the other victims); A Loaded Gun (about mass shooter Amy Bishop); and The Worst of the Worst (about Judy Clarke, who defends notorious killers). Wine, Dutch mafia, financial scandal, El Chapo, Donald Trump, tax evasion, arms dealing, African mining, and Anthony Bourdain not so much.

Book discussion this week.