bA iNEW YORK TIMESi NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - iNEW YORK TIMESi BEST SELLER - A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of iSay Nothing.ib pbA real-life version of the HBO series iSuccessioni with a lethal sting in its tail ... a masterful work of narrative reportage. - Laura Miller, iSlatei b pThe history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama--baroque personal lives bitter disputes over estates fistfights in boardrooms glittering art collections Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions--Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague--until i