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London Falling Apart. A True Crime Investigation into a Mysterious Death, a Secret Identity, and a Family's Fight for Justice Against London's Criminal Underworld
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- Nombre de pages176
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-3-565-43081-9
- EAN9783565430819
- Date de parution29/04/2026
- Protection num.pas de protection
- Taille2 Mo
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurEmphaloz Publishing House
Résumé
He was a nineteen year old boy with a secret life, a fake identity, and a debt he could not repay.
On a cold November night, Zac Brettler fell from a seventh floor balcony into the Thames. The police called it suicide. His mother knew they were wrong.
Rachelle Brettler had raised a loving, talkative son who made plans for Christmas and texted heart emojis days before his death. He was not suicidal.
So when Scotland Yard closed the case in sixteen days with barely an investigation, she refused to accept their verdict. She became a detective. She uncovered a world she never knew existed. Her son had been living as Zac Ismailov, the fake heir to a Russian oligarch's fortune. He had been drawn into London's glittering underworld of private clubs, dirty money, and violent criminals. He had borrowed from a slippery fixer named Akbar Shamji.
He had run errands for a murderous gangster known as Indian Dave. And he had been terrified. Rachelle found voicemails from debt collectors who threatened her family. She found photographs of her son with men who have never been charged with a crime. She found a luxury apartment owned by a mysterious shell company, the same balcony where Zac spent his final hours. And she found other families. Other young men.
Other falls from other balconies. All ruled suicides. All ignored by the authorities. London Falling Apart is the true story of a mother who refused to let her son's death be a footnote. It is a gripping investigation into a city where wealth protects the guilty, where the police look the other way, and where the truth can only be found by those willing to risk everything. For readers of I'll Be Gone in the Dark and Say Nothing, this book will keep you turning pages until the final, devastating revelation. Some deaths are not what they seem.
Some secrets are buried alive. And one mother is still fighting to unearth them both.
So when Scotland Yard closed the case in sixteen days with barely an investigation, she refused to accept their verdict. She became a detective. She uncovered a world she never knew existed. Her son had been living as Zac Ismailov, the fake heir to a Russian oligarch's fortune. He had been drawn into London's glittering underworld of private clubs, dirty money, and violent criminals. He had borrowed from a slippery fixer named Akbar Shamji.
He had run errands for a murderous gangster known as Indian Dave. And he had been terrified. Rachelle found voicemails from debt collectors who threatened her family. She found photographs of her son with men who have never been charged with a crime. She found a luxury apartment owned by a mysterious shell company, the same balcony where Zac spent his final hours. And she found other families. Other young men.
Other falls from other balconies. All ruled suicides. All ignored by the authorities. London Falling Apart is the true story of a mother who refused to let her son's death be a footnote. It is a gripping investigation into a city where wealth protects the guilty, where the police look the other way, and where the truth can only be found by those willing to risk everything. For readers of I'll Be Gone in the Dark and Say Nothing, this book will keep you turning pages until the final, devastating revelation. Some deaths are not what they seem.
Some secrets are buried alive. And one mother is still fighting to unearth them both.
