Stone's Fall
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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 this 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.
Reviews
"British author Pears matches the brilliance of his bestselling An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998) with this intricate historical novel. . . . The pages will fly by for most readers, who will lose themselves in the clear prose and compelling plot."
--Publishers Weekly, starred and boxed
"A learned, witty and splendidly entertaining descent into the demimondes of international espionage, arms dealing, financial hanky-panky and other favorite pastimes of those without conscience. . . . Suffice it to say that the long but fast-paced story involves, among many other things, plenty of spy-versus-spy stuff, a whiff of romance and a plan to fill the world with enough all-destroying weapons that no one would ever dare go to war--an epic James Bond tale, in other words, by way of G.K. Chesterton and perhaps Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Classy crime fiction, delightfully written, with few straight lines in sight."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred
"When I read Iain Pears' Instance of the Fingerpost years ago, I thought it was so brilliantly plotted, so compulsively entertaining, so utterly engrossing that I gave it to my father and said, 'This is the new Dickens.' Stone's Fall is better."
--Malcolm Gladwell
"A steadily simmering, action-filled story."
--The Globe and Mail
"A magnificent piece of writing . . . beyond question."
--The Gazette
"Engrossing and intelligent, it's the best sort of page-turner."
--Daily Mail
"Pears has a knack of creating drama about high finance, a world that has been notably missing from the modern novel. . . . This is a splendid return to the grand 19th-century novel in its inclusive vision of society."
--The Independent
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