{"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":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER • From the\nbestselling, prizewinning author of \u003ci\u003eSay Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEmpire\nof Pain\u003c\/i\u003e, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death\nof their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret\nlife which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath\nLondon’s glittering surface\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the early morning of November 29th, 2019, surveillance cameras at the\nheadquarters of MI6, Britain’s spy agency, captured video of a young man pacing\nback and forth on a high balcony of Riverwalk, a luxury tower on the bank of\nthe river Thames. At 2:24 a.m., he jumped into the river.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn a quiet London neighborhood several miles away, Rachelle Brettler was\nworried about her son. Zac had told her that he had gone to stay with a friend\nfor the weekend, but then he did not come home. Days later, a police car pulled\nup and two officers relayed the dreadful news: Her son was dead.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn their unbearable grief, Rachelle and her husband, Matthew, struggled to\nunderstand what had happened to Zac. He had had his troubles, but in no way\nseemed suicidal. As they would soon discover, however, there was a lot they did\nnot know about their son. Only after his death did they learn that he had\nadopted a fictitious alter ego: Zac Ismailov, son of a Russian oligarch and\nheir to a great fortune. Under this guise, Zac had become entangled with a\nslippery London businessman named Akbar Shamji and a murderous gangster known\nas Indian Dave. As the Brettlers set about investigating their son’s death,\nthey were pulled into a different and more dangerous London than the one they’d\nalways known, and came to believe that something much more nefarious than a\nsuicide had claimed Zac’s life. But to their immense frustration, Scotland Yard\nseemed unable—or unwilling—to bring the perpetrators to justice.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn a bravura feat of reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe chronicles the\nBrettlers’ quest, peeling back layers of mystery and exposing the seedy truths\nbehind the glamorous London of posh mansions and private nightclubs, a city in\nwhich everything is for sale, and aspirational fantasies are underwritten by\ndirty money and corruption. \u003ci\u003eLondon Falling\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing\ninvestigation of an inexplicable death and a powerful narrative driven by\nsuspense and staggering revelations. But it is also an intimate and deeply\npoignant inquiry into the nature of parental love and the challenges of being a\nparent today, a portrait of a family trying to solve the riddle not just of how\ntheir son died, but of who he really was in life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Radden Keefe\u003c\/b\u003e is a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe\nNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eRogues\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEmpire\nof Pain\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction),\nand \u003ci\u003eSay Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, which received a National Book Critics Circle\nAward and was named one of the Twenty Best Books of the Twenty-First Century\nby \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHe is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National\nMagazine Award, and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. 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