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Stone’s Fall

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By Iain Pears

By Iain Pears

By Iain Pears

By Iain Pears

By Iain Pears
Read by Roy Dotrice, John Lee and Simon Vance

By Iain Pears
Read by Roy Dotrice, John Lee and Simon Vance

Paperback $16.00

Jun 01, 2010 | 608 Pages

Ebook $12.99

May 05, 2009 | 608 Pages

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    About Stone’s Fall

    At his London home, John Stone falls out of a window to his death. A financier and arms dealer, Stone was a man so wealthy that he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents. Did he jump, was he pushed, or was it merely a tragic accident? His alluring and enigmatic widow hires a young crime reporter to investigate. The story moves backward in time—from London in 1909 to Paris in 1890 and finally to Venice in 1867—and the attempts to uncover the truth play 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. Stone’s Fall is a tale of love and frailty, as much as it is of high finance and skulduggery. The mixture, then, as now, is an often fatal combination.

    About Stone’s Fall

    At his London home, John Stone falls out of a window to his death. A financier and arms dealer, Stone was a man so wealthy that he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents. Did he jump, was he pushed, or was it merely a tragic accident? His alluring and enigmatic widow hires a young crime reporter to investigate. The story moves backward in time—from London in 1909 to Paris in 1890 and finally to Venice in 1867—and the attempts to uncover the truth play 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. Stone’s Fall is a tale of love and frailty, as much as it is of high finance and skulduggery. The mixture, then, as now, is an often fatal combination.

    About Stone’s Fall

    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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    About Iain Pears

    Iain Pears is the author of the bestsellers An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio, Stone’s Fall, and Arcadia, and a novella, The Portrait, as well as a series of acclaimed detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial and… More about Iain Pears

    About Iain Pears

    Iain Pears is the author of the bestsellers An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio, Stone’s Fall, and Arcadia, and a novella, The Portrait, as well as a series of acclaimed detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial and… More about Iain Pears

    About Iain Pears

    Iain Pears is the author of the bestsellers An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio, Stone’s Fall, and Arcadia, and a novella, The Portrait, as well as a series of acclaimed detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial and… More about Iain Pears

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Spiegel & Grau
    Jun 01, 2010 | 608 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780385522854

    Category: Historical Fiction | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Spiegel & Grau
    May 05, 2009 | 608 Pages | ISBN 9780385530248

    Category: Historical Fiction | Suspense & Thriller | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $32.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    May 05, 2009 | 1440 Minutes | ISBN 9780739354384

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    Praise

    “When I read Iain Pears’ An Instance of the Fingerpost years ago, I thought it was so brilliantly plotted, so compulsively entertaining, so utterly engrossing that I gave it to my father and said, ‘This is the new Dickens.’ Stone’s Fall is better.”—Malcolm Gladwell

    “Mr. Pears’s assured command of period history, language, lore, and attitudes is formidable.”–The Wall Street Journal



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