Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

Stone's fall :

Pears, Iain.

Stone's fall : a novel / - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2009. - 594 p. ; 25 cm.

In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race.

9780385522847 0385522843

2009000472


Capitalists and financiers--Fiction.
Arms transfers--Fiction.
International finance--Fiction.


Europe--History--1871-1918--Fiction.


Mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.

PR6066.E167 / S76 2009

823/.914