Andrew O’Hagan’s maximum city

Andrew O’Hagan’s maximum city

In February 2024, an article in the New Yorker forensically investigated a moral rot spreading through London. In “A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld”, Patrick Radden Keefe reported the strange story of a British 19-year-old named Zac, who fell from the fifth floor of a gleaming riverside skyscraper in Pimlico. Keefe tracked the odd circumstances of his death to a drug-trade gangster called “Indian Dave” and a once-bankrupt crypto …