“One of the things that really interested me was the parents investigating their son’s death. He goes off the balcony of this luxury building into the Thames. It’s unclear, is this a suicide? Is it murder? Is it something more exotic? The parents trust Scotland Yard to get to the bottom of it, but then there’s this gradual awareness that the police aren’t actually going to come and help. So they have to try and work it out themselves. That was really interesting to me as a dynamic. They’re incredibly invested, but they also get pulled into this underworld in London inside the city they hadn’t known.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Interview Magazine
What booksellers are saying about London Falling
- The depth and care that Patrick Radden Keefe puts into researching a story is evident in this new must-read for any parent, history buff, or true crime fan.
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- A chance connection led Keefe to this story, and his reporting is impeccably researched, brilliantly plotted and eye-opening: a compelling exposé of the dark underbelly of the UK’s glittering capital city, and a teenager in its thrall.
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- This book captured my attention very quickly, and I powered through the first six or so hours of audio.
― Marinna, Pearl’s Books in Fayetteville, AR | BUY
- Keefe peeled back the layers of this convoluted story with meticulous attention to detail and a hearty helping of contextualizing history. I did not expect to learn about the construction of the Ugandan Railway and the fall of the USSR, but I’m glad I did. This was a sad yet fascinating exploration into the London underworld, and I am glad that Keefe was able to tell Zac’s story.
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About Patrick Radden Keefe
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rogues, Empire of Pain (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize), and Say Nothing, which received a National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of the Twenty Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Book Review. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award, and the Orwell Prize. He served as an executive producer on the award-winning FX series Say Nothing. He is also the creator and host of the podcast Wind of Change, which The Guardian and Entertainment Weekly named the #1 podcast of 2020.
