London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for TruthPatrick Radden Keefe

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth

Baillie Gifford · 2026 · Longlist

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Baillie Gifford Prize	2026	Longlist

About This Book

The story of Zac Brettler, a teenager who fell from a luxury London apartment after posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, and of his parents' search for the truth. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2026.

About the Author

Patrick Radden KeefeUS

Patrick Radden Keefe is an American author and staff writer at The New Yorker, widely considered one of the foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction in the United States. His books combine deep investigative journalism with novelistic storytelling, typically focusing on crime, conflict, and the dark corners of American institutions. His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, among many other honors. Read more →