الوصف
From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a riveting investigative true crime masterpiece that peels back the glittering, opulent facade of modern London to expose a dark underbelly of wealth, violence, and deceit. In late 2019, nineteen-year-old Zac Brettler mysteriously fell to his death from the balcony of a luxury Thames-side apartment building. Devastated and unsatisfied with the official suicide ruling, his grieving parents embarked on a desperate quest for justice, only to uncover a shocking double life. They discovered that their son had been operating under a fictitious persona as the heir of a billionaire Russian oligarch, an alternate identity that pulled him into a dangerous web of shady business magnates, international dirty money, and notorious London gangsters. Masterfully compiled using interrogation transcripts, security footage, and intimate interviews, this haunting account captures a tragic family grievance while serving as a forensic indictment of the extreme greed transforming global cities. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
