Stone's Fall - A Novel (Paperback)

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."

General

Imprint:	Random House USA Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	June 2010
Authors:	Iain Pears
Dimensions:	210 x 141 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	596
ISBN-13:	978-0-385-52285-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-385-52285-1
Barcode:	9780385522854

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