Canalles

With the fascinating style that characterizes him, Patrick Radden Keefe offers in this book a complex overview of the dark side of the human being. Here he portrays, among other characters, the arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar, nicknamed "the prince of Marbella" and tirelessly persecuted by a DEA agent, the controversial "devil's advocate" who fights against the death penalty representing the worst criminals, Chapo Guzmán and his life after escaping from a high security prison, or the famous Dutch criminal William Holleeder and his own sister's efforts to achieve his imprisonment. Maleantes collects twelve profiles of swindlers, knaves, murderers and rebels, people who swim against the current and whose exceptional life, for better and for worse, invites the reader to reflect on topics such as the essence of evil, power, crime and corruption, but also on the courage of those who decided to confront them.