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  title info:
    title: London falling
    sub title: a mysterious death in a gilded city and a family's search for truth
  name:
    name part: Keefe, Patrick Radden
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 investigat…
  table of contents: 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.
  target audience: adult
  note: Patrick Radden Keefe.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Brettler, Zac
      name part: 2000-2019
  subject:
    topic: Crime
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Suicide
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Impersonation
    genre: Case studies
  classification: HV6950.L7 K44 2026
  classification: 364.152
  identifier: 9780385548533
  identifier: 0385548532
  identifier: 9780385548540
  identifier: 2025020115
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 260109
    record change date: 20260508155430.2
    record identifier: in00005778633