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Original Title:	Stone's Fall
ISBN:	0385522843 (ISBN13: 9780385522847)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	London, England,1909(United Kingdom) Paris,1890(France) Venice,1867(Italy)
Literary Awards:	Walter Scott Prize Nominee (2010)

Stone's Fall

Iain Pears

Pasta dura | Pages: 594 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 6495 Users | 892 Reviews

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Title	:	Stone's Fall
Author	:	Iain Pears
Book Format	:	Pasta dura
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 594 pages
Published	:	May 5th 2009 by Spiegel & Grau
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Mystery

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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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This book was brilliantly put together - a series of cogs and wheels and moving parts that only come together as the three parts are read. As we go backwards in time, to see John Stone's rise, we are taken through the pieces of his life which caused his fall. The story was riveting, and the narrative voices compelling, as the story explains the love affair between Stone and his wife, Elizabeth. Elizabeth's dramatic history is revealed piece by piece, as it dovetails with her husbands, and the

I grabbed this from the 'New Books' section from the library and then was stuck with it on a flight. Upon my return and 200 pages in I was bored and wished I could abandon it but felt obligated at that point to just keep reading. I don't mind long books but at 594 pages I do expect it to be decent reading. Its current score on Amazon is 4.5/5.0 stars so apparently someone liked it. The whole mystery noir isn't my typical reading genre so maybe that was its first strike but the story was so

Another stellar novel by Iain Pears! He certainly knows how it is done, no doubt about it...Who knew the world of high finance could be that thrilling? We all know it is a world of intrigue, treachery, egomania and tragic flaws, but in the hands of Iain Pears, it takes on epic proportions and becomes a terrain where all human foibles run free.As always, a very brilliant construction full of surprises and several voices, each one more convincing than the previous one.

I don't know if this book deserves a 3 or a 4 star rating. I genuinely do not know how I feel about this book. In this book I see a similar theme to the one in "Instance of the fingerpost", but told here through different timelines as opposed to just multiple viewpoints. I found every character to speak with the same voice. I love Iain Pears's writing and think his stories to also be very intelligent. I was able to predict what the final few pages were going to reveal but I honestly thought it

Liked the audio version. History given is accurate, necessary & interestingly written. Nearly quit thinking it a romance (only mystery there usually is HOW/WHEN they get each other - ugh!). Glad I didn't quit it although it ended a little sick. Sorry for typos in 'update' review, couldn't edit it.

Originally published on my blog here in February 2011.Iain Pears has to be one of my favourite crime authors. The magnificent An Instance of the Fingerpost is an incredible historical thriller, with three different solutions to the mystery being presented by different narrators, while the Jonathan Argyll series is an entertaining and amusing romp through the Italian art world. The two are very different sides to Pears' talent, and his newest novel, Stone's Fall is cut from the same cloth as An

Great book. Very relevant today when "financial" war is very possible. Well-researched, well-written, a gripping tale of what might have happened earlier in the century. Highly recommend it.