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Patrick Radden Keefe — the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain — joins us in conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker for the launch of his new book, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth.
One early morning in 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6, Britain’s spy agency, captured video of a young man pacing back and forth on a high balcony of a luxury tower on the bank of the river Thames. At 2:24 AM, he jumped into the river. A spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their 19 year-old son — and their subsequent discovery that he had created a secret life in a dangerous criminal underworld — London Falling is more than a true crime investigation into an inexplicable death and the staggering revelations that followed. Masterfully reported by Patrick Radden Keefe, London Falling is an intimate and deeply poignant inquiry into the nature of parental love — a portrait of a family trying to solve the riddle not just of how their son died, but of who he really was in life.
On the same stage where Truman Capote debuted his true crime masterpiece In Cold Blood, join Radden Keefe for the launch of his new book: a classic-in-the-making and a profoundly moving account of wealth, family, grief, and the nature of truth from one of the finest non-fiction writers at work today.
Recorded Apr 07, 2026 at The 92nd Street Y, New York.
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Patrick Radden Keefe — the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain — joins us in conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker for the launch of his new book, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth.
One early morning in 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6, Britain’s spy agency, captured video of a young man pacing back and forth on a high balcony of a luxury tower on the bank of the river Thames. At 2:24 AM, he jumped into the river. A spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their 19 year-old son — and their subsequent discovery that he had created a secret life in a dangerous criminal underworld — London Falling is more than a true crime investigation into an inexplicable death and the staggering revelations that followed. Masterfully reported by Patrick Radden Keefe, London Falling is an intimate and deeply poignant inquiry into the nature of parental love — a portrait of a family trying to solve the riddle not just of how their son died, but of who he really was in life.
On the same stage where Truman Capote debuted his true crime masterpiece In Cold Blood, join Radden Keefe for the launch of his new book: a classic-in-the-making and a profoundly moving account of wealth, family, grief, and the nature of truth from one of the finest non-fiction writers at work today.
Recorded Apr 07, 2026 at The 92nd Street Y, New York.
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