London Falling

A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth

AvPatrick Radden Keefe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES No.1 BESTSELLER'A defining book of our time' - The Times'The master of the non-fiction narrative' - The Sunday Times'A masterpiece' - The Observer'Compulsive' - The Guardian'Breathtaking' - Jon Ronson'Completely engrossing' - Louis Theroux'Phenomenal' - Emily Maitlis'More addictive than any box set' - Sathnam SangheraA book of the summer in The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, Financial Times and The AtlanticFrom the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a riveting story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.In 2019, a London teenager, Zac Brettler, fell to his death from a luxury apartment building on the banks of the Thames. On a desperate quest to understand how their son had died, his grieving parents made a terrible discovery: Zac had been leading a fantasy life, posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch.Patrick Radden Keefe follows Zac’s parents on a dark journey to find out what brought him to the balcony that night – and how a teenager’s life of make-believe drew him into the city’s terrifying underworld.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-04-07
Mått:237 x 37 x 160 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Pan Macmillan
ISBN:9781035056279

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Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search For Truth, the bestsellers Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction), Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (a collection of his New Yorker stories) and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (named one of the 20 Best Books of the 21st Century by the New York Times and now streaming as a limited series on Disney+), as well as two critically acclaimed books, The Snakehead and Chatter. He is the writer and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change, which The Guardian named the #1 podcast of 2020, and the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. He lives in New York.

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Gripping, rigorous and smart, London Falling takes a terrible mystery with an extraordinary cast of characters and somehow manages to make it perfectly encapsulate the weirdness of how London has mutated these past decades . . . breathtaking