The follow up to Keefe's book about the IRA, Say Nothing, is a bit wet. The story is there, very complex, and a close look at London's oligarch underbelly, but there ultimately isn't enough information for there to be a satisfying result. This being a true story means there isn't always a pat resolution, but it does make one wonder if this should have stayed a magazine article, rather than a book.

Don't start London Falling, or any of Patrick Radden Keefe's books, for that matter, if you want to get anything else done. You will be handcuffed to the book, in thrall with Zac Brettler's story, until you turn the final page.

If Radden Keefe can make the Troubles both explicable and relatively easy to follow for a history novice like me, he can explain most anything. He structures his books in such a way that makes them compulsively readable, leaving the major revelations at the end so you finish the story with mouth agape.