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In 2019, a London teenager, Zac Brettler, mysteriously fell to his death from a luxury apartment building on the banks of the Thames. When his grieving parents began their desperate quest to understand how their son had died, they made a terrible discovery: Zac had been leading a fantasy life, posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch.
In his inimitably gripping and forensic prose, Baillie Gifford Prize winner and New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe follows Zac’s parents on a dark journey to find out what brought Zac to the balcony that night – and how a teenager’s world of make-believe drew him into the city’s terrifying underworld.
London Falling is at once a devastating family tragedy, a riveting story of greed, power and deception, and an indictment of the culture that has transformed London into a haven for the malignant forces that have come to influence us all.’
‘From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a stunning story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.
‘A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you’ll be turning pages for hours’ Los Angeles Times
‘Patrick Radden Keefe [is] one of the top narrative nonfiction authors of his generation’ TIME
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Imprint: Picador
Publication date: 28/04/2026
London Falling
By Patrick Radden Keefe
Review by Harriet
Completely riveting! From the mysterious death of a London teenager and the blurred economies of the city's super-wealthy and underworld, Keefe unravels the reverberations of past wars, empires and geopolitical power shifts on contemporary London society and human psychology. He then winds right back in to the central individuals, exposing in forensic detail the impulses of deception, greed and aspiration at the heart of the story. Superb and eye-opening narrative non-fiction from one of the masters.
For fans of David Grann and Tom Burgis.
