Stone’s Fall: A Novel

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 timefrom London in 1909 to Paris in 1890 and finally to Venice in 1867and the attempts to uncover the truth play out against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance, Europes first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth centurys arms race. Stones 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.
ASIN: 0385522851
VSKU: RDV.0385522851.LN
Condition: Like New
Author/Artist:Pears, Iain
Binding: Paperback
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