倾覆的伦敦：镀金之城的一桩离奇死亡与一家人的寻真之旅（疼痛帝国Empire of Pain作者新书）London Falling:A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Familys Search for TruthPatrick Radden Keefe

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Doubleday

Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 7, 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 384 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385548532

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0385548533

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.43 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 0.97 x 9.13 inches

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

畅销书《沉默不语》（Say Nothing）和《痛苦帝国》（Empire of Pain）的作者，又一力作，讲述了一个家庭因19岁儿子的猝然离世而悲痛欲绝，却意外发现他曾过着隐秘的生活，深陷于伦敦光鲜亮丽表象下危险的犯罪世界。

2019年11月29日凌晨，英国军情六处（MI6）总部的监控摄像头拍到一名年轻男子在泰晤士河畔豪华公寓Riverwalk的高层阳台上来回踱步。凌晨2点24分，他跳入了河中。

几英里外，在伦敦一个宁静的街区，蕾切尔·布雷特勒（Rachelle Brettler）正为儿子扎克（Zac）的安危担忧不已。扎克告诉她，他去朋友家住了，但之后却杳无音讯。几天后，一辆警车停在她家门口，两名警官带来了噩耗：她的儿子已经去世了。

在难以承受的悲痛中，雷切尔和她的丈夫马修努力理解扎克身上究竟发生了什么。他的确有些烦恼，然而，他们很快就会发现，他们对儿子知之甚少。直到儿子去世后，他们才得知他给自己取了一个虚构的身份：扎克·伊斯梅洛夫，一位俄罗斯寡头的儿子，也是巨额财富的继承人。在这个身份下，扎克与一位名叫阿克巴·沙姆吉的狡猾伦敦商人，以及一个绰号“印度戴夫”的凶残黑帮分子纠缠不清。布雷特勒夫妇开始调查儿子的死因，却发现自己置身于一个与他们以往所知的截然不同、更加危险的伦敦，他们开始相信，夺走扎克性命的远不止自杀那么简单。但令他们无比沮丧的是，苏格兰场似乎无力——或者说不愿——将凶手绳之以法。

帕特里克·拉登·基夫以精湛的报道和写作技巧，记录了布雷特勒一家追寻真相的历程，层层揭开伦敦光鲜亮丽的表象，揭露了豪宅林立、夜总会林立的繁华都市背后不为人知的阴暗真相。在这个城市里，一切都可以买卖，人们的美好幻想背后隐藏着肮脏的金钱和腐败。《伦敦陷落》是一部引人入胜的调查之作，讲述了一桩离奇死亡事件，并以悬念迭起、令人震惊的真相，构成了一部扣人心弦的叙事作品。同时，它也是一部细腻动人的作品，探讨了父母之爱的本质以及当今为人父母所面临的挑战，描绘了一个家庭试图解开儿子死亡之谜，以及他生前真实面貌的历程。

From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London’s glittering surface

In the early morning of November 29th, 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 Riverwalk, a luxury tower on the bank of the river Thames. At 2:24 a.m., he jumped into the river.

In a quiet London neighborhood several miles away, Rachelle Brettler was worried about her son. Zac had told her that he had gone to stay with a friend, but then he did not come home. Days later, a police car pulled up and two officers relayed the dreadful news: her son was dead.

In their unbearable grief, Rachelle and her husband, Matthew, struggled to understand what had happened to Zac. He had his troubles, but in no way seemed suicidal. As they would soon discover, however, there was a lot they did not know about their son. Only after his death did they learn that he had adopted a fictitious alter-ego: Zac Ismailov, son of a Russian oligarch and heir to a great fortune. Under this guise, Zac had become entangled with a slippery London businessman named Akbar Shamji, and a murderous gangster known as “Indian Dave.” As the Brettlers set about investigating their son’s death, they were pulled into a different and more dangerous London than the one they’d always known, and came to believe that something much more nefarious than a suicide had claimed Zac’s life. But to their immense frustration, Scotland Yard seemed unable—or unwilling—to bring the perpetrators to justice.

In a bravura feat of reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe chronicles the Brettlers’ quest, peeling back layers of mystery and exposing the seedy truths behind the glamorous London of posh mansions and private nightclubs, a city in which everything is for sale, and aspirational fantasies are underwritten by dirty money and corruption. London Falling is a mesmerizing investigation of an inexplicable death and a powerful narrative driven by suspense and staggering revelations. But it is also an intimate and deeply poignant inquiry into the nature of parental love and the challenges of being a parent today, 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.

作者简介

帕特里克·拉登·基夫是《纽约客》杂志屡获殊荣的专栏作家，也是五本畅销书的作者，其中包括荣获贝利·吉福德非虚构类图书奖并入围《金融时报》年度商业图书奖的《痛苦帝国：萨克勒王朝秘史》；以及荣获美国国家书评人协会奖的《沉默不语：北爱尔兰谋杀与记忆的真实故事》。他的新著作是《恶棍：骗子、杀手、叛逆者和罪犯的真实故事》。他曾荣获美国国家杂志奖特稿写作奖和奥威尔政治写作奖，同时也是八集播客节目《变革之风》的创作者和主持人。该节目探讨了冷战间谍活动与重金属音乐之间奇特的交集，被《娱乐周刊》和《卫报》评为2020年度播客，下载量超过1000万次。基夫在波士顿长大，现居纽约。

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker and the bestselling author of five books, including Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, which received the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the FT Business Book of the Year, and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent book is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks. The recipient of the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, he is also the creator and host of the 8-part podcast "Wind of Change," about the strange intersection of Cold War espionage and heavy metal music, which was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by Entertainment Weekly and the Guardian and has been downloaded more than 10 million times. He grew up in Boston and now lives in New York.