In a bravura feat of reporting and writing, bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe chronicles the quest of one family to understand what happened to their son Zac, who ostensibly jumped to his death from a luxury tower on the banks of the Thames. Radden Keefe discusses the reporting behind the book and what Zac’s story reveals about wealth, power, and corruption in today’s globalized world, 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.
Moderated by Musa Okwonga, writer, poet and musician
In cooperation with Kultur Büro Elisabeth.
Meet the speaker
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rogues, Empire of Pain (winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize) and Say Nothing, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of the Twenty Best Books of the 21st Century by the…
