London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City, and a Familys Search for Truth

From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing a stunning story of corruption and tragedy in one of the worlds great cities: London.

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 Zacs parents on a dark journey to find out what brought Zac to the balcony that night and how a teenagers world of make-believe drew him into the citys 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.