Celebrate the Release of London Falling: Patrick Radden Keefe Book Club

About this event

To celebrate the release of Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book, London Falling we are hosting a very special book club. Join us to talk about your favourite books by Patrick Radden Keefe with fellow readers and get your hands on a copy of his newest book!

Patrick Radden Keefe’s investigative journalism has formed the basis of many of his books, including The Snakehead (2009) on the titular gang operating in New York City’s Chinatown; Say Nothing (2018) on the Troubles in Northern Ireland and Empire of Pain (2021) – a revelatory account of the Sackler dynasty’s responsibility in the manufacturing and marketing of the painkiller OxyContin.

London Falling

In 2019, a London teenager, Zac Brettler, mysteriously fell to his death from a luxury apartment building on the banks of the Thames. When his grieving parents began their desperate quest to understand how their son had died, they made a terrible discovery: Zac had been leading a fantasy life, posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch.

In his inimitably gripping and forensic prose, Baillie Gifford Prize winner and New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe follows Zac’s parents on a dark journey to find out what brought Zac to the balcony that night – and how a teenager’s world of make-believe drew him into the city’s terrifying underworld.

London Falling is at once a devastating family tragedy, a riveting story of greed, power and deception, and an indictment of the culture that has transformed London into a haven for the malignant forces that have come to influence us all.

Tickets are free but we recommend booking to secure your spot! Copies of Patrick’s books will be available to purchase at the event.

 Please note, Patrick Radden Keefe will not be appearing at this event.

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