| International Standard Book Number |
9780385548533 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0385548532 hardcover
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
364.152 23/eng/20260407
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| Personal Name |
Keefe, Patrick Radden, author.
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| Title Statement |
London falling : a mysterious death in a gilded city and a family's search for truth / Patrick Radden Keefe.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Mysterious death in a gilded city and a family's search for the truth.
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| Edition Statement |
First Doubleday hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
©2026.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Doubleday, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
still image sti rdacontent.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-361).
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Prologue -- PART I THE FALL. The big I am ; A fast life ; An edifice of lies ; Missing persons ; River of death ; The night in question -- PART II COINCIDENCES. A family of braves ; Prodigal son ; Suspicion of murder ; The great sham ; A jigsaw in the dark ; Lights out ; The little fella -- PART III THE BALANCE OF PROBABILITIES. The Cipriani five ; Private investigations ; Pocket dial ; A different light ; Hornet's nest -- PART IV SURVIVORS. A chance encounter ; The black box ; Undertow ; The kid's home safe ; Epilogue.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"From the bestselling, prize-winning author of SAY NOTHING, a powerfully compelling account of a family devastated by the apparent suicide of their nineteen year-old son, only to discover he had created a separate identity which drew him into the dangerous international criminal underworld underlying London's glittering surface. In the early morning of November 29th, 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6, Britain's spy agency, captured a video of a young man pacing back and forth on a balcony of Riverwalk, a luxury building on the opposite bank of the Thames River. At 2:24 a.m., he jumped. In a quiet London neighborhood several miles away, Rachelle Brettler was worried. She hadn't heard from her son Zac, who told her he had gone to stay with a friend for the night, but wasn't answering his phone. Five days later, a police car pulled up in front of the house, and she knew she was about to hear the news every parent dreads: Her son was dead. In their unbearable grief, Rachelle and her husband Matthew tried to understand what had happened to Zac. He had his troubles, but in no way seemed suicidal. But his death was just the beginning of the shocks: The man who owned the apartment in Riverwalk, a wealthy businessman named Akbar Shamji, told them he knew Zac by a different identity: Zac Ismailov, the child of a wealthy Russian oligarch, whose widowed mother was living in Dubai and freezing him out of his inheritance. Then they learned that the apartment was occupied by a notorious gangster known as "Indian Dave" in London criminal circles. Indian Dave had been implicated in a gangland slaying and fled the country, but for opaque reasons came back to England and was never prosecuted. From the physical evidence and recovered text messages between Shamji and Sharma, it appeared something very different than a suicide had taken place in Riverwalk that night. But to the immense frustration of the Brettlers, Scotland Yard seemed to have no interest in investigating. In a bravura piece of reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe delves into a story that peels back multiple layers of mystery, and exposes the seedy truths beneath the glamourous London of posh mansions and private night clubs, a world sustained and abetted by fundamental corruption. Zac Brettler was not the only person in the tale spinning lies. London Falling is a mesmerizing investigation of an inexplicable death, fueled by multiple turns and revelations, but at its heart it is a deeply empathetic portrait of a family trying to understand not just why their son died, but who he was."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Brettler, Zac, 2000-2019
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Crime England London Case studies.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Suicide England London Case studies.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Impersonation Case studies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Case studies. lcgft.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
True crime stories. lcgft.
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| Additional Physical Form Entry |
Online version Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976- London falling First Doubleday hardcover edition New York : Doubleday, [2026] 9780385548540 (DLC) 2025020116.
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| Location |
364.152 KEE 31662001847466
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