Stones Fall: A Novel - Iain Pears
Category: Thriller
Narrator: Simon Vance
Tags: Thriller, Adults
Length: 24 hrs and 6 mins Release date: 05-05-09 Publisher: Random House Audio, 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., 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, Stones Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home., Chronologically, it moves backwardsfrom London in 1909 to Paris in 1890, and finally to Venice in 1867. In the process the quest to uncover the truth plays 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., Like Fingerpost, Stones Fall is an intri
