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SUMMARY:Real People\, Real Stories
DESCRIPTION:Real People/Real Stories explores the best in nonfiction 
 history\, biography\, science\, nature\, and the arts.\n\nThis month's 
 read: \n\nLondon Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a 
 Family's Search for Truth\, by Patrick Radden Keefe \n\nFollowing the 
 mysterious death of their nineteen–year-old son\, a British couple are 
 shocked to discover that he was covertly involved with a dangerous criminal 
 organization operating in London. This true crime thriller was written by 
 the best-selling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain.\n\n“Keefe\, 
 the author of some of this century’s finest nonfiction\, has crafted 
 another masterwork. This is a penetrating portrait of a young man destroyed 
 by malignant influences given free rein in a global hub of capitalist 
 excess. . . . Keefe might be our sharpest chronicler of the intersection of 
 criminal opportunism and institutional fecklessness. . . . This is powerful 
 reporting\, a potential classic about the dangerous allure of a city remade 
 as ‘a twenty-four-hour laundromat for dirty money.’ An exemplary 
 account of naïveté\, wealth\, and menace\, impeccably told by a top-notch 
 journalist.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\n\n“A meticulously 
 researched propulsive thriller. . . . A feat of remarkable reportage. . . . 
 Irresistible. . . . Keefe’s unerringly razor-sharp attention links these 
 disparate elements of heedless ambition\, uninhibited risks\, and 
 otherworldly privilege that created a powerful vacuum of want in a 
 tenacious teen desperate for access. With empathetic insight\, Keefe deftly 
 sifts through facts and fictions to distill Zac’s young life\, 
 enthrallingly seeking the unknowable truth of his tragic 
 death.”\n—Shelf Awareness\n\n“Another blockbuster feat of reportage. 
 . . . I sprinted through this addictive book in three days and gasped more 
 than once at the true story’s twists and turns.”\n—Adam Morgan\, 
 Esquire\n\n
LOCATION:Room 128\, Stryker Center (412 North Boundary Street)
ORGANIZER;CN="Charlotte Burcher":MAILTO:cburcher@wrl.org
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
CONTACT;CN="Charlotte Burcher":MAILTO:cburcher@wrl.org
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