Stone's Fall
of Iain Pears
Description
In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and arms dealer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents.A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stoneâs Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home.Chronologically, it moves backwardsâfrom London in 1909 to Paris in 1890, and finally to Venice in 1867â and in the process the quest to uncover the truth plays out against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance, Europeâs first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth centuryâs arms race.Like Fingerpost, Stoneâs Fall is an intricately plotted and richly satisfying puzzleâan erudite work of history and fiction that feels utterly true and oddly timelyâand marks the triumphant return of one of the worldâs great storytellers.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 594 pages
- Publisher Spiegel & Grau
- Publication Date May 5th 2009
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780385522847
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
- Scenario ['London, England', 'Paris (France)', 'Venice (Italy)']
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