In Chatter: Dispatches From the Secret World Of Global Eavesdropping, Keefe describes how American security agencies, including the National Security Agency, eavesdrop on communications between people suspected of involvement in terrorism to determine the likelihood of terrorist attacks in the near future. Keefe won the 2021 Ambies award for "Best Podcast Host". Keefe is the host of the 2020 podcast Wind of Change, which explores a rumor that the song " Wind of Change" by the Scorpions was secretly written by the CIA, rather than by the band's lead singer, Klaus Meine. He won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award (nonfiction) for Say Nothing. In addition to winning the National Magazine Award in 2014, he was also nominated in 2015 for "The Hunt for El Chapo" and in 2016 for "Where the Bodies are Buried", about a woman who disappeared in Northern Ireland. Keefe's story "A Loaded Gun", published in The New Yorker in 2013, received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.
Topics include a conflict over ownership of iron reserves in Guinea, policy complications faced by states legalizing recreational marijuana, and the capture of Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera. Keefe has written investigative reports on a broad array of topics and issues. He was a policy adviser in the Office of the Secretary of Defense between 20.
He has since received many fellowships, including those from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. After his Marshall Scholarship, Keefe returned to the U.S. in international relations from Cambridge University and an M.Sc. He won a Marshall Scholarship in 1999, through which he received an M.Phil. Keefe grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, attended Milton Academy, and received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1999. He is the author of five books- Chatter, The Snakehead, Say Nothing, Empire of Pain, and Rogues-and has written extensively for many publications, including The New Yorker, Slate, and The New York Times Magazine. Patrick Radden Keefe (born 1976) is an American writer and investigative journalist.
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