The basis of the Netflix movie Pain Hustlers, coming October 2023 and starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, Andy Garcia, and Catherine O’Hara.

The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers—until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial.

"A feat of rigorous sleuthing and deft storytelling that unfolds with the velocity and verve of a Scorsese film… A tour de force."

— Patrick Radden Keefe

EVAN HUGHES

The author of Pain Hustlers (originally published as The Hard Sell), Evan Hughes has written feature-length articles for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, GQ, New York, The New Republic, Wired, the London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books. He was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Reporting in 2015 for The Trials of White Boy Rick. He is also the author of Literary Brooklyn.