Stone's Fall (Signed First Edition)

IAIN PEARS

ISBN 10: 0385522843 / ISBN 13: 9780385522847

Published by Spiegel & Grau, 2009

About this Item

New York: Spegiel and Grau [2009]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Signed by author on title page. NEW/NEW. A pristine unread copy, very fine in all respects, opened only for signing. Smoke-free. Shipped in well-padded box. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. You cannot find a better copy. 0.0.

Seller Inventory # 0409MFM-45

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stone's Fall (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385522843
• ISBN 13: 9780385522847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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.

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.