Stone's Fall Paperback by Iain Pears

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2010-06-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 608 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780676979855
• Item Weight: 462.67 grams
• Dimensions: 8.24 x 5.47 x 1.22 cm

A tour de force in the tradition of Iain Pears’ international bestseller, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Stone’s Fall weaves a story of love and high finance into the fabric of a page-turning thriller. A novel to stand alongside Atonement and The Remains of the Day.

A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stone’s Fall is a quest, a love story, and a tale of murder—richly satisfying and completely engaging on many levels. It centres on the career of a very wealthy financier and the mysterious circumstances of his death, cast against the backdrop of WWI and Europe’ s first great age of espionage, the evolution of high-stakes international finance and the beginning of the twentieth century’s arms race. Stone’s Fall is a major return to the thriller form that first launched Iain Pears onto bestseller lists around the world and that earned him acclaim as a mesmerizing storyteller.

About the Author

Iain Pears is the author of the bestsellers An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Dream of Scipio, 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 historical subjects. He lives in Oxford, England.