Sister Ping
New York shopkeeper who ran a people-smuggling empire
1 book · 2009First appears in The SnakeheadPatrick Radden Keefe is a New Yorker writer whose narrative non-fiction reads like a thriller, from Say Nothing, about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, to Empire of Pain and London Falling.
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Patrick Radden Keefe’s first book is Chatter (2005). There are 6 books in all, published from 2005 to 2026.
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5 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.
New York shopkeeper who ran a people-smuggling empire
1 book · 2009First appears in The SnakeheadBelfast mother of ten who disappeared in 1972
1 book · 2018First appears in Say NothingMember of the IRA
1 book · 2018First appears in Say NothingOwners of Purdue Pharma
1 book · 2021First appears in Empire of PainLondon teenager who died in the Thames
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