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A Novel
Spiegel & Grau
May 2009
On Sale: May 5, 2009
608 pages
ISBN: 0385522843
EAN: 9780385522847
Hardcover
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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.
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