I knew of the Sacklers before I started this book. And I had a vague awareness of the opioid crisis in the US. I don’t tend to read non-fiction, but I was drawn to the topic and this terrible, powerful, negative force laying waste to people’s lives. I wanted to understand how the unleashing of something so deadly and so destructive could have happened.

Yes I knew of the Sacklers. And now having turned the last page of this meticulously researched and beautifully written work, I’m still trying to get my head around their culpability in the huge loss of lives and futures over decades.

Now I know more of the Sacklers. Above all their total unwillingness to accept any responsibility for what they’ve done. And the fact that they’ve still walked away with billions.

Shame on the Sacklers.