Review of Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling
This article reviews Patrick Radden Keefe’s book 'London Falling,' which explores the dark underbelly of London as a hub for global kleptocrats and criminals. The reviewer praises Keefe's narrative nonfiction style for its depth and journalistic rigor.
In November 2019, in London, among the most surveilled cities in the world, a security camera captured a young man in a luxury high-rise on the banks of the Thames. It watched as he stepped out into the balcony in the middle of the night, walked from end to end before returning to the centre, and then pitched himself over, into nothingness, into the river. It was a matter of minutes, possibly seconds. But what led to those seconds? And what followed after?
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