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Stone's fall

Stone's fall

by Iain Pears

2009MysteryLiteratureCapitalists and financiersFictionInternational finance
5.0
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A return to the form that launched Iain Pears onto bestseller lists around the world: a vast historical mystery, marvelous in its ambition and ingenius in its complexity.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, Stone's Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home.Chronologically, it moves backwards--from London in 1909 to Paris in 1890, and finally to Venice in 1867-- and in the process the quest to uncover the truth plays out against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race. Like Fingerpost, Stone's Fall is an intricately plotted and richly satisfying puzzle--an erudite work of history and fiction that feels utterly true and oddly timely--and marks the triumphant return of one of the world's great storytellers.From the Hardcover edition.

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MysteryLiteratureCapitalists and financiersFictionInternational financeHistorical Fiction
First published 2009

Setting

Europe1871-1918

About the author

Iain Pears

1955

Author

Iain Pears

First published

2009

Pages

606

Read time

≈ 15h

Editions

12

Languages

English, French

Publisher

Spiegel & Grau

ISBN

9782714444028

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