London Falling

Ein junger Hochstapler, sein mysteriöser Tod und die globalen Verstrickungen der Superreichen - nach 'Imperium der Schmerzen' das neue Buch des preisgekrönten Journalisten Patrick Radden KeefeLondon, 2019: Als der 19-jährige Zac Brettler vom Balkon eines Luxushochhauses in den Tod stürzt, kommt eine dunkle Wahrheit ans Licht - er hatte sich als Sohn eines russischen Oligarchen ausgegeben und immer tiefer in die kriminellen Machenschaften zwielichtiger Superreicher verstrickt. Die Polizei zeigt wenig Interesse an der Aufklärung, denn in einer Stadt, die sich längst im Würgegriff der globalen Korruption befindet, scheinen gute Geschäfte mehr zu zählen als ein Menschenleben. Minutiös recherchiert und hervorragend erzählt, widmet sich Keefe dem schillerndsten Treffpunkt der internationalen High Society und offenbart, welcher Strudel aus Gewalt hinter ihrer glänzenden Fassade verborgen liegt.

'Eine erschütternde, absolut fesselnde Saga.'The New York TimesEines Nachts im Dezember 1972 wird Jean McConville aus ihrem Haus in Belfast entführt. Sie wird nie wieder lebend gesehen. Ausgehend von diesem Moment entfaltet Patrick Radden Keefe eine gewaltige Erzählung über die blutige Vergangenheit des Nordirlandkonflikts.Sage nichts verwebt die Geschichte von Jean McConville mit der von Dolours Price, die als 22-Jährige das Old Bailey bombardierte, und mit der von Brendan Hughes, einem furchterregenden Kommandeur, der den Schweigekodex der IRA brach. Dabei fängt Patrick Radden Keefe die Intrigen, die Dramatik und den hohen menschlichen Preis der sogenannten 'Troubles' ein - und erzählt, wie Gesellschaften nach einem langen und blutigen Konflikt wieder zusammenwachsen können.'Nordirland und seine Vergangenheit haben mich nie interessiert - bis ich dieses Buch in die Hand genommen habe.'The Times'Unbedingt lesen!' Gillian Flynn, Autorin von 'Gone Girl'

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES No.1 BESTSELLER<BR><BR>'A defining book of our time' - The Times<BR>'The master of the non-fiction narrative' - The Sunday Times<BR>'A masterpiece' - The Observer<BR>'Compulsive' - The Guardian<BR>'Exquisite . . . a masterpiece' Financial Times<BR>'Breathtaking' - Jon Ronson<BR>'Completely engrossing' - Louis Theroux<BR>'Phenomenal' - Emily Maitlis<BR>'More addictive than any box set' - Sathnam Sanghera<BR>A book of the summer in The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times, The New York Times, Financial Times and The Atlantic<BR><BR>From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a riveting story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.<BR><BR>In 2019, a London teenager, Zac Brettler, fell to his death from a luxury apartment building on the banks of the Thames. On a desperate quest to understand how their son had died, his grieving parents made a terrible discovery: Zac had been leading a fantasy life, posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch.<BR><BR>Patrick Radden Keefe follows Zac's parents on a dark journey to find out what brought him to the balcony that night - and how a teenager's life of make-believe drew him into the city's terrifying underworld.<BR>

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing.<BR><BR>"A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail…a masterful work of narrative reportage.” – Laura Miller, Slate <BR><BR>The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.<BR><BR>Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability.<BR><BR>A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.

**Patrick Radden Keefe's new instant No.1 bestseller, London Falling, is on sale now**<BR><BR>The shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, OxyContin and the opioid crisis. The inspiration behind the Netflix series Painkiller, starring Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick.<BR><BR>Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction<BR>The Sunday Times Bestseller<BR>A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'<BR>One of The Telegraph's 20 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time<BR>Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award<BR>One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year<BR>Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction<BR><BR>'There are so many "they did what?" moments in this book, when your jaw practically hits the page' - Sunday Times<BR><BR>'A page-turner with a villainous family to rival the Roys in Succession' - Esquire<BR><BR>'You feel almost guilty for enjoying it so much' - The Times<BR><BR>By the beginning of the twenty-first century the Sackler family had become one of the richest in America, their name adorning the walls of institutions like Harvard and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The source of the family fortune had long been vague, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and ruthlessly marketing OxyContin - a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis which, to date, has killed over half a million people.<BR><BR>In this searing investigation, Patrick Radden Keefe tells the story of the Sackler family's extraordinary rise and reveals a shocking story of greed and corruption at the heart of modern America.<BR><BR>Merging gripping storytelling with fearless investigative journalism, Patrick Radden Keefe is undeniably one of the great nonfiction writers of our time.<BR><BR>'I gobbled up Empire of Pain . . . a masterclass in compelling narrative nonfiction.' - Elizabeth Day, The Guardian<BR><BR>'[Keefe is] a gifted storyteller who excels at capturing personalities' - The Washington Post<BR><BR>'This book will make your blood boil' - John Carreyrou, author of Bad Blood

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMESBEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYNow an FX TV series streaming on DISNEY+'Unquestionably one of the greatest literary achievements of the 21st century' Nick HornbyFrom the author of London Falling- a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of this terrible crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades.In this powerful, scrupulously reported book, Patrick Radden Keefe offers not just a forensic account of a brutal crime but a vivid portrait of the world in which it happened. The tragedy of an entire country is captured in the spellbinding narrative of a handful of characters, presented in lyrical and unforgettable detail.A poem by Seamus Heaney inspires the title: 'Whatever You Say, Say Nothing'. By defying the culture of silence, Keefe illuminates how a close-knit society fractured; how people chose sides in a conflict and turned to violence; and how, when the shooting stopped, some ex-combatants came to look back in horror at the atrocities they had committed, while others continue to advocate violence even today.Say Nothing deftly weaves the stories of Jean McConville and her family with those of Dolours Price, the first woman to join the IRA as a front-line soldier, who bombed the Old Bailey when barely out of her teens; Gerry Adams, who helped bring an end to the fighting, but denied his own IRA past; Brendan Hughes, a fearsome IRA commander who turned on Adams after the peace process and broke the IRA's code of silence; and other indelible figures. By capturing the intrigue, the drama and the profound human cost of the Troubles, the book presents a searing chronicle of the lengths that people are willing to go to in pursuit of a political ideal, and the ways in which societies mend - or don't - in the aftermath of a long and bloody conflict.

**Patrick Radden Keefe's new book, London Falling, is on sale now**<BR><BR>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION<BR><BR>'Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it's all true' - Time<BR><BR>In this thrilling story of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown, managed a multimillion-dollar business smuggling people.<BR><BR>In The Snakehead, Patrick Radden Keefe reveals the inner workings of Cheng Chui Ping aka Sister Ping's complex empire and recounts the decade-long FBI investigation that eventually brought her down. He follows an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS as it pursues desperate immigrants risking everything to come to America, and along the way he paints a stunning portrait of a generation of undocumented immigrants and the intricate underground economy that sustains and exploits them.<BR><BR>'A powerful piece of reportage about the violent underworld of New York's Chinatown' - The Times<BR><BR>Merging gripping storytelling with fearless investigative journalism, Patrick Radden Keefe is undeniably one of the great nonfiction writers of our time.<BR><BR>'The finest non-fiction writer we have' - Elizabeth Day<BR><BR>'A gifted storyteller who excels at capturing personalities - The Washington Post<BR><BR>'We are fortunate to have him pounding the pavement to expose real-life darkness' - The Irish Times

'Ein Buch, das wütend und fassungslos macht und dabei so meisterhaft erzählt ist, dass man es nicht aus der Hand legen mag.' ARD tttDas große, verstörende Porträt der Sackler-Familie, die sich als Philantropen feiern lassen, deren Vermögen durch Valium entstand und die mit der Erfindung des Medikaments OxyContin die Opioidkrise in den USA auslöste. Und Millionen Menschen weltweit in die Abhängigkeit stürzte.Der preisgekrönte Autor Patrick Radden Keefe zeichnet das Sittengemälde einer Industriellenfamilie, die die Welt prägt. Die Geschichte der Sackler-Dynastie birst vor Dramen - barocke Privatleben, erbitterte Verteilungsschlachten, machiavellistische Manöver in Gerichtssälen und der kalkulierte Einsatz von Geld, um sich als Kunstmäzene Zugang zur Elite zu kaufen und die weniger Mächtigen zu brechen. Ein narratives Meisterwerk, umfassend recherchiert und erschreckend zwingend argumentiert.

"Ein Buch, das wütend und fassungslos macht und dabei so meisterhaft erzählt ist, dass man es nicht aus der Hand legen mag." ARD tttDas große, verstörende Porträt der Sackler-Familie, die sich als Philantropen feiern lassen, deren Vermögen durch Valium entstand und die mit der Erfindung des Medikaments OxyContin die Opioidkrise in den USA auslöste. Und Millionen Menschen weltweit in die Abhängigkeit stürzte.Der preisgekrönte Autor Patrick Radden Keefe zeichnet das Sittengemälde einer Industriellenfamilie, die die Welt prägt. Die Geschichte der Sackler-Dynastie birst vor Dramen - barocke Privatleben, erbitterte Verteilungsschlachten, machiavellistische Manöver in Gerichtssälen und der kalkulierte Einsatz von Geld, um sich als Kunstmäzene Zugang zur Elite zu kaufen und die weniger Mächtigen zu brechen. Ein narratives Meisterwerk, umfassend recherchiert und erschreckend zwingend argumentiert.