PRE-ORDER: London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe (HC)

From 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.

REVIEWS

"A masterclass of evidence-chasing, narrative clarity and authorial empathy . . . unputdownable." - Martin Vander Weyer ― Literary Review

"As this dark book makes clear, the city’s “glitzy, mercenary, aspirational culture” allows grifters and gangsters to thrive." ― The Economist

"Magnificent." - Alexandra Shulman ― Daily Mail

PRODUCT DETAILS
Hardcover Edition
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 978-1035056279
Pages: 384