{"product_id":"london-falling","title":"London Falling","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"row subcategory-data mt-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12 col-xl-9\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePatrick Radden Keefe | Paperback | April 2026 \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12 col-xl-9\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-330cd4a9=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSay Nothing \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a stunning story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you'll be turning pages for hours' \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Patrick Radden Keefe [is] one of the top narrative nonfiction authors of his generation' TIME\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his inimitably gripping and forensic prose, Baillie Gifford Prize winner and \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Falling\u003c\/i\u003e 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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e--------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Info\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePatrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand the author of the bestsellers \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction), \u003ci\u003eRogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks \u003c\/i\u003e(a collection of his \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e stories) and \u003ci\u003eSay Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland \u003c\/i\u003e(named one of the 20 Best Books of the 21st Century by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and now streaming as a limited series on Disney+), as well as two previous critically acclaimed books, \u003ci\u003eThe Snakehead\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChatter\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the writer and host of the eight-part podcast \u003ci\u003eWind of Change\u003c\/i\u003e, which \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003enamed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"booxies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48456670019751,"sku":null,"price":46.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0507\/1523\/0375\/files\/londonfalling.jpg?v=1776312839","url":"https:\/\/booxies.com\/en-nz\/products\/london-falling","provider":"booxies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}