London Falling

<b>THE INSTANT <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> No.1 BESTSELLER<br /><br />'A defining book of our time' - <i>The Times</i><br />'The master of the non-fiction narrative' - <i>The Sunday Times</i><br />'A masterpiece' - <i>The Observer</i><br />'Compulsive' - <i>The Guardian</i><br />'Exquisite . . . a masterpiece' <i>Financial Times</i><br />'Breathtaking' - Jon Ronson<br />'Completely engrossing' - Louis Theroux<br />'Phenomenal' - Emily Maitlis<br />'More addictive than any box set' - Sathnam Sanghera</b><br /><br /><b>A book of the summer in <i>The Times, The Guardian</i>, <i>The Independent</i>, <i>The Irish Times</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>Financial Times</i> and<i> The Atlantic</i><br /><br />From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and<i> Sunday Times </i>bestselling author of<i> Empire of Pain </i>and <i>Say Nothing </i>comes a riveting story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.</b><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.