News Summary

• Patrick Radden Keefe's new book, London Falling, tells the story of Zac Brettler.
• Brettler fell to his death from a balcony on the fifth floor of an upscale apartment complex.
• Keefe: "London is such a beautiful place that it can be easy, as you stroll around the city, to forget that much of it was built on imperial plunder" The book portrays the city as a liminal metropolis where the line demarcating business and crime has been worn faint by heavy footfall from both directions.