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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth cover

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

Patrick Radden Keefe

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#1340 of 3,809 books · #472 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2026) and the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2026).

London Falling won the Baillie Gifford Prize and was a Sunday Times bestseller. 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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Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781035056286
Topics
Mysterious death investigationWealth and deceptionLondon underworld

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