STONE S FALL

Sinopsis de STONE S FALL

In his most dazzling and brilliant novel since An Instance of the Fingerpost,Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and armamentsmanufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One hewas able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries andcontinents.A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stone´s Fall is a questto discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at hisLondon home.Iain Pears was born in 1955. He is the author of seven detective novels, a bookof art history and countless articles on artistic, financial and historicalsubjects, and three novels, An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipioand The Portrait.