Patrick Radden Keefe

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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Thanks, pal.

Still working out the details but looking like maybe in May (!)

Last night I watched ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and was fairly blown away by how prescient it feels in capturing the encroaching dystopia of this moment in American history.
Today I woke up to this clip which feels on about 5 different levels like it could be an outtake from the movie.

YES. We're still sorting out all the logistics but if you email Three Lives & Co in NYC info@threelives.com they should be able to sort you out. Their phone is (212) 741-2069

LONDON FALLING | Kirkus Reviews A tragic death in a transformed city.

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First review of my new book LONDON FALLING, from Kirkus. At a moment when every day feels like a month and every month feels like a year, April 7 is still a very long way off. But the book is available for pre-order now. 🙏

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Be loud for America.

Mercenary Meltdown - The Sentry August 2025 Download the full report The first Wagner Group fighters arrived in Bamako in January 2022 to assist the Malian military junta in its counterterrorism campaign. Three and a half years late...

Fascinating new report from @thesentryorg.bsky.social on what happened when Mali invited the Wagner Group into the country to help fight terrorism. Short answer: nothing good. thesentry.org/reports/merc...

Added bonus: it's very funny

The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.

In the weird, terrible moment we're all experiencing of contested reality / distorted reality / unreality, I was heartened by this wonderful Zach Helfand piece about the brilliant, heroic fact checkers of @newyorker. May they save civilization.

Astrid Holleeder stapt uit anonimiteit: 'Wil niet meer iemand anders zijn' De zus van de tot levenslang veroordeelde crimineel Willem Holleeder maakte dat bekend in het tv-programma RTL Boulevard.

Astrid has come out of hiding. When my piece about her ran, we had to negotiate to use the photo above, showing (very artfully, I thought) just her eye. Here, for the first time on the internet, is her face.
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Big update on this piece tonight...

Exclusive | NYC’s most secretive mansion stands to list for the first time in decades following the death of its heiress owner The sprawling maisonette at 666 Park Ave. could soon return to the market after spending many years completely hidden from view.

The gargantuan Upper East Side residence of Arthur and Jillian Sackler just hit the market. When the Sacklers lived there, the 12,000 square-ft triplex had its own dedicated address
--- 666 Park Avenue --- but someone decided it might be a good idea to rebrand as 660M 😂 nypost.com/2025/08/21/r...

I saw George Mitchell give a talk last night about the diplomatic effort to end the Troubles, culminating in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and he said something so sobering but obviously true: if social media had existed in the 90s the negotiators would never have been able to get an agreement.

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That's my plug for now. Much more next year. Can't wait for this one to be out in the world. Thank you. 🙏

Australia: www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781035056293/

London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe Go to London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe.

UK:

London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe | Penguin Random House Canada From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he...

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London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe: 9780385548533 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen year-old son, only to discover that...

Pre-order links are now live. Here's the U.S.:

And here's the UK/Ireland/Australia/NZ cover, from @picadorbooks.bsky.social.

Here's the U.S. cover! From @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

But also in a broader sense about what it is about London today that would make a teenager aspire to be the son of a Russian oligarch.

It's about Zac Brettler, a London teenager who died in mysterious circumstances in 2019, and about his parents, who discovered after his death that he had been pretending to be the son of a Russian oligarch. It has turned out, in a weird way, to be a book about parenting, and about grief...

New book coming.

Mexico clown convention condemns fancy-dress drug cartel killing Latin American clowns gathered in Mexico City say killer dressed in wig and rubber nose had nothing to do with them

Found it! And my gloss was not far off.

"The people who do that, they're not clowns."