{"id":68544,"date":"2026-02-23T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=68544"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:05:25","slug":"patrick-radden-keefe","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/event\/patrick-radden-keefe\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Radden Keefe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"74025:0\"><em>After Zac Brettler mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his grieving parents discovered that he\u2019d been posing as an oligarch\u2019s son. Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death?<\/em> So begins Radden Keefe\u2019s gripping New Yorker piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2024\/02\/12\/a-teens-fatal-plunge-into-the-london-underworld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Teen\u2019s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld<\/em><\/a>, which was published on February 5, 2024, and is now the basis for his new book,\u00a0<em>London Falling<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"74025:0\">As Ravi Mirchandani, editor-in-chief of\u00a0<em>Picador<\/em>, says, Radden Keefe will \u201cinvestigate what brought Zac Brettler, businessman Akbar Shamji, and London gangster Dave Sharma together that night and will show that the UK capital, the city of great architecture, open spaces and history, can suddenly turn malignant and dangerous, a place that has been fully hijacked by property speculation, insidious corruption, mercenary realpolitik, and the culture of bling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"74025:0\"><em>After Zac Brettler mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his grieving parents discovered that he\u2019d been posing as an oligarch\u2019s son. Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death?<\/em> So begins Radden Keefe\u2019s gripping New Yorker piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2024\/02\/12\/a-teens-fatal-plunge-into-the-london-underworld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Teen\u2019s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld<\/em><\/a>, which was published on February 5, 2024, and is now the basis for his new book,\u00a0<em>London Falling<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"74025:0\">As Ravi Mirchandani, editor-in-chief of\u00a0<em>Picador<\/em>, says, Radden Keefe will \u201cinvestigate what brought Zac Brettler, businessman Akbar Shamji, and London gangster Dave Sharma together that night and will show that the UK capital, the city of great architecture, open spaces and history, can suddenly turn malignant and dangerous, a place that has been fully hijacked by property speculation, insidious corruption, mercenary realpolitik, and the culture of bling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":68545,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[57],"class_list":["post-68544","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-rental-partner-events","cat_rental-partner-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/68544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/68544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68544"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=68544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}