Stone's Fall - Couverture souple

Pears, Iain

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385522851 ISBN 13 : 9780385522854

Editeur : Random House Publishing Group, 2010

Synopsis

At his London home, John Stone falls out of a window to his death. A financier and arms dealer, Stone was a man so wealthy that he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents. Did he jump, was he pushed, or was it merely a tragic accident? His alluring and enigmatic widow hires a young crime reporter to investigate. The story moves backward in time--from London in 1909 to Paris in 1890 and finally to Venice in 1867--and the attempts to uncover the truth play 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. Stone's Fall is a tale of love and frailty, as much as it is of high finance and skulduggery. The mixture, then, as now, is an often fatal combination.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385522851
• ISBN 13: 9780385522854
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 608
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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