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London Falling

'<b>From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and </b><b><i>Sunday Times </i></b><b>bestselling author of </b><b><i>Empire of Pain </i></b><b>and </b><b><i>Say Nothing </i></b><b>comes a stunning story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.</b><br /><br /><b>'A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you'll be turning pages for hours' </b><b><i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><b><br /><br />'Patrick Radden Keefe [is] one of the top narrative nonfiction authors of his generation' TIME</b><br /><br />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.<br /><br />In his inimitably gripping and forensic prose, Baillie Gifford Prize winner and <i>New Yorker</i> 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.<br /><br /><i>London Falling</i> 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.'