Patrick Radden Keefe

is the intermingling of some unsavory stuff, that it's kind of a fantasy to think that you can get the great restaurants and the sparkling real estate and the whole kind of sense of this dynamic global capital that it is

without recognizing that a lot of that has a really significant downside.

London Falling is ultimately the story about a kid who paid the price for that, you know, who sort of wandered into this kind of glittering fulcrum only to become surrounded by wolves.

I mean, I hope people are asking questions.

Yes, the book is, you know, a lot of people are reading it and talking about it in London.

It went right to the top of the Sunday Times list.

It's in all the windows of the bookshops.

All of that, I think, is comforting for the Brettlers who for many years were feeling very isolated and kind of forgotten about.

In terms of the police, I don't know.

I mean, I think it's a tricky thing.

Some people would like to see the investigation reopened.

Some people would like to see some sort of an inquiry, some kind of parliamentary scrutiny.

I mean, it's extraordinary.

You know, I didn't engage with the article.

They didn't engage with the book.

When I finished the book, we sent...

I don't remember how many it is, but maybe 200 fact-checking queries to them in a memo saying, we're gonna say this, we're gonna say this, we're gonna say this, we're gonna say this.

Do you have a comment?

Do you have a defense of yourself?

Do you have a denial?