Sleepless last couple of nights because of this heartbreaking, tender, impeccably reported new book by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social LONDON FALLING is fascinating and utterly gobsmacking -- and that's just the footnotes. Best not read before bed!
Patrick Radden Keefe
@praddenkeefe.bsky.social
New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else). New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
The crazy story of a couple of old con men, the teen that got mixed up with them and the family that mourned him. A really good read. @praddenkeefe.bsky.social
@praddenkeefe.bsky.social This is in your wheelhouse! First book event of the fall in NYC! Thursday, September 17th at 7pm. Please share the Info and link— I am so thrilled to be joining IrishArtsCenter as part of their 2026-27 season! Tickets are on sale- irishartscenter.org/event/forest...
Sometimes I like to match up my reading with my location. Other times I tear through @praddenkeefe.bsky.social’s latest, the phenomenal LONDON FALLING, in a place about as far from oligarchs and violence and urban intrigue as you can get:
Nick Hornby's summer reading list includes LONDON FALLING by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social. Read more at @thebeliever.net www.thebeliever.net/stuff-ive-be...
Stuff I’ve Been Reading: Summer 2026 - Believer Magazine
books read: A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction—Elizabeth McCracken London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth—Patrick Radden Keefe The Things We Never Say—E...
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Listen to @praddenkeefe.bsky.social on This Is Criminal: thisiscriminal.com/episode-368-...
Episode 368: Riverwalk (6.12.2026)
In November 2019, nineteen-year-old Zac Brettler went missing. When his parents began looking for him, they discovered that Zac had been living a double life.
thisiscriminal.com
Amazon has named LONDON FALLING the #1 nonfiction book of 2026 so far. Wild. 🙏🙏https://www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview/read/B0GX2TJLS1?ref_=abr_widget_nav&theme=light
Best Nonfiction of 2026 So Far
The Amazon Editors’ #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2026 hails from Patrick Radden Keefe, one of the most talented narrative nonfiction writers working today.
amazon.com
Rachelle & Matthew Brettler speak to The Times.
London Falling and the death of our son, by Zac Brettler’s parents
Patrick Radden Keefe’s book London Falling has become a huge bestseller — the true story of 19-year-old Zac Brettler, who got involved with a criminal underworld before jumping to his death in 2019. F...
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I’m delighted to be talking to @praddenkeefe.bsky.social on Monday of next week at the @shhomeplace.bsky.social about London Falling, his exceptional book about the love of money. seamusheaneyhome.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
In this week's 1 on 1, @praddenkeefe.bsky.social joins Harry to unravel the mysterious death at the center of his new book—and how oligarch wealth, corrupt systems, and Trump-style excess are reshaping both London and America. Link: youtu.be/gXspEQ53nLM
Reading as fast as I can and not wanting it to end. The mastery of @praddenkeefe.bsky.social London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and A Family’s Search for Truth
This book is one of the most incredible I have ever read. #LondonFalling is gripping, scary and at times unbelievable. I will never see London the same way again. Emily Maitlis is right, this story will stay with me a long time. Incredible writing from @praddenkeefe.bsky.social
Enormous congrats to my wonderful colleague Ava Kofman, who just won a National Magazine Award for this tremendous piece. If you haven't read it, now's your chance: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
newyorker.com
I took a stroll around Riverwalk and chatted about LONDON FALLING and the dilemmas of this kind of writing with the excellent @basialc.bsky.social, and am very grateful for the thoughtful piece which came out of it: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Patrick Radden Keefe: ‘Fakery is now the coin of the real...
On a walk along the Thames Embankment, the investigative journalist discusses his new book, London Calling, and the online world and Trumpist nihilism that led the young man at its centre to his death
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"You might find yourself willing to forego scrolling, eating, or sleeping to race to its end." -Vann R. Newkirk on LONDON FALLING by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0... via @theatlantic.com
25 Sensational Books to Read This Summer
The Atlantic’s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.
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Edinburgh! This is a week from tonight.
The Portobello Bookshop@portybooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoPlus we’re excited to be hosting @praddenkeefe.bsky.social and @misszing.bsky.social at Edinburgh’s Church Hill Theatre one week today (Wed 6th May) and you can sign up here to join us in person: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/an-ev...
London! This is next week.
Truth Tellers@sirharrysummit.bsky.social · 3mo ago📣 Staying Fearless In the past 12 months, the assault on independent journalism in the US has intensified. Four leading voices on how to stand firm. 🗣️ @katharineviner.bsky.social @praddenkeefe.bsky.social @camanpour.bsky.social Emma Tucker @maitlis.bsky.social 🔴 Livestream 6 May: sirharrysummit.org
This is how the United States Department of Justice writes now.
LONDON FALLING by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social is one of @nytimes.com best books of 2026 (so far): www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
The Best Books of the Year (So Far)
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In London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe “comes about as close as possible to resolving” the problems of the true crime genre. “For all its formal satisfactions [the book] is scrupulously humane.” —@mrkocnnll.bsky.social
London’s Brutal Underground | Mark O’Connell
In Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling, an ordinary boy’s deadly obsession with the ultrarich reveals deeper corruption at the heart of modern London.
nybooks.com
I'm hugely grateful for this deeply considered and beautifully written review of LONDON FALLING from a writer I admire, @mrkocnnll.bsky.social. @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
London’s Brutal Underground | Mark O’Connell
In Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling, an ordinary boy’s deadly obsession with the ultrarich reveals deeper corruption at the heart of modern London.
nybooks.com
“Reads like a nonfiction social novel, capturing something vital about a city that, for all its cultural energy and beauty, can feel as though it has ice in its veins.” Thank you, @markoconnell.bsky.social! @nybooks.com on LONDON FALLING by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
London’s Brutal Underground | Mark O’Connell
In Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling, an ordinary boy’s deadly obsession with the ultrarich reveals deeper corruption at the heart of modern London.
nybooks.com
Just finished reading @praddenkeefe.bsky.social’s WILD New Yorker article about a group of people in New Orleans who staged *dozens* of car-into-18-wheeler accidents for money. They were real collisions. Gonna be thinking about this one for a while. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Car-Crash Conspiracy
High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.
newyorker.com
For the @newyorker.com Radio Hour, I spoke with David Remnick about LONDON FALLING, and for this segment we included some audio from recorded conversations the Brettlers had with Akbar Shamji and the gangster known as "Indian Dave." www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death
The New Yorker staff writer, who has chronicled political violence under the Irish Republican Army and the opioid epidemic, traces how a teen came to impersonate an oligarch’s son.
newyorker.com
For @praddenkeefe.bsky.social, one of the best writers on corruption, the current moment provides an extraordinary bounty. Here, he focuses on a glut of car accidents involving big rigs around New Orleans. Guest editor Kit Chellel's top pick: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Car-Crash Conspiracy
High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.
newyorker.com
😂🙏 Will cook for you any time.
Laura Lippman@lauralippman.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt is so unfair that @praddenkeefe.bsky.social is one of our best nonfiction writers AND also one of the best audio readers to whom I’ve listened. (London Falling.) Also a good cook, or so I inferred from his Grub Street Diet. I’d hate him if I didn’t admire him so much.
Gobsmacked. Thanks to the incredible team at @doubledaybooks.bsky.social, to booksellers (who are, no joke, keeping literacy alive) and to everyone who has read the book already or has it on reserve at the library or just thinks they might check it out eventually when they get around to it. 🙏🙏🙏
Doubleday Books@doubledaybooks.bsky.social · 4mo agoCongratulations to @praddenkeefe.bsky.social! LONDON FALLING is an instant bestseller.
What a fun night in San Francisco. My interlocutor Isaac Chotiner may have been going easy on me.
Patricia Cartes@cartes.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat a treat to get to listen to @praddenkeefe.bsky.social talk about London Falling and his writing process. If there was a Goodreads rating for talks this one would be 5 🌟
This is the craziest shit I have read in a loooooong time.
Patrick Radden Keefe@praddenkeefe.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn the New Yorker this week, a story I've been trying to get off the ground for 5 years... about a Hollywood stuntwoman-turned-personal-injury-lawyer, her ex-con fiancee, high-speed crashes with 18-wheelers, and economic desperation in 21st century America. It's set in New Orleans and it's a doozy.
