From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning andSunday Timesbestselling author ofEmpire of PainandSay Nothingcomes a stunning story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.

One of those authors I will always read, no matter what the subject matter . . . a masterclass in compelling narrative non-fiction The GuardianonEmpire of Pain

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 andNew Yorkerwriter Patrick Radden Keefe follows Zacs parents on a dark journey to find out what brought Zac to the balcony that night and how a teenagers world of make-believe drew him into the citys terrifying underworld.

London Fallingis 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.