{"product_id":"london-falling-a-mysterious-death-in-a-gilded-city-and-a-familys-search-for-truth-hardcover","title":"London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick Radden Keefe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling, prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eSay Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London's glittering surface\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the early morning of November 29th, 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6, Britain's spy agency, captured video of a young man pacing back and forth on a high balcony of Riverwalk, a luxury tower on the bank of the river Thames. At 2:24 a.m., he jumped into the river. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a quiet London neighborhood several miles away, Rachelle Brettler was worried about her son. Zac had told her that he had gone to stay with a friend, but then he did not come home. Days later, a police car pulled up and two officers relayed the dreadful news: her son was dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn their unbearable grief, Rachelle and her husband, Matthew, struggled to understand what had happened to Zac. He had his troubles, but in no way seemed suicidal. As they would soon discover, however, there was a lot they did not know about their son. Only after his death did they learn that he had adopted a fictitious alter-ego: Zac Ismailov, son of a Russian oligarch and heir to a great fortune. Under this guise, Zac had become entangled with a slippery London businessman named Akbar Shamji, and a murderous gangster known as \"Indian Dave.\" As the Brettlers set about investigating their son's death, they were pulled into a different and more dangerous London than the one they'd always known, and came to believe that something much more nefarious than a suicide had claimed Zac's life. But to their immense frustration, Scotland Yard seemed unable--or unwilling--to bring the perpetrators to justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a bravura feat of reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe chronicles the Brettlers' quest, peeling back layers of mystery and exposing the seedy truths behind the glamorous London of posh mansions and private nightclubs, a city in which everything is for sale, and aspirational fantasies are underwritten by dirty money and corruption. \u003ci\u003eLondon Falling\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing investigation of an inexplicable death and a powerful narrative driven by suspense and staggering revelations. But it is also an intimate and deeply poignant inquiry into the nature of parental love and the challenges of being a parent today, a portrait of a family trying to solve the riddle not just of how their son died, but of who he really was in life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Radden Keefe\u003c\/b\u003e is a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eRogues\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction), and \u003ci\u003eSay Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, which received a National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of the Twenty Best Books of the Twenty-First Century by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award, and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He served as an executive producer on the awardwinning FX series \u003ci\u003eSay Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e and is also the creator and host of the podcast \u003ci\u003eWind of Change\u003c\/i\u003e, which \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e named the #1 podcast of 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.23 x 9.31 x 6.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44562134007943,"sku":"9780385548533","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/h3sE74BxHc9780385548533.webp?v=1777920625","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/london-falling-a-mysterious-death-in-a-gilded-city-and-a-familys-search-for-truth-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}