London Falling

<h2><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></h2><p><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.<br></p>