"It's not crime, per se, that interests me, but the intermingling of the licit and illicit worlds, and the ways in which people deviate from a kind of conventional morality by degrees—and then the stories that they tell themselves about doing that."
"As he looked into it, he learned that the boy, Zac Brettler, had assumed an alternate identity as the son of a Russian oligarch, and had connected with dangerous people—just as mysterious."
Zac Brettler, a teenager, fell from a luxury apartment tower in London under mysterious circumstances. He had assumed an alternate identity as the son of a Russian oligarch and connected with dangerous individuals. Patrick Radden Keefe, while living in London, investigated this case, leading to his new book 'London Falling.' Keefe is interested in the blend of legal and illegal worlds and how individuals justify their moral deviations. He includes recordings from Brettler's parents as they sought answers about their son's fate.
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