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.
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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.