London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe review – a...

A New Yorker writer traces the web of deceit that led a troubled teenager to his violent deathEarly one winter morning in November 2019, a surveillance camera at MI6’s headquarters on the Thames registered the silhouette of a young man on the balcony of an apartment complex on the opposite side of the river. It was dark but the fifth-floor balcony was brightly lit. The man seemed to hesitate a moment before he jumped. On the way down his hip struck the embankment wall and, possibly unconscious a