{"product_id":"1168661","title":"Stone's Fall by Iain Pears","description":"In his most dazzling and brilliant novel since An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents. A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stone's Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home. Chronologically, it goes backwards u London in 1909, then Paris in 1890, and finally Venice in 1867 u and Stone's character and motivation deepen as the book progresses; in the first part he is almost an abstraction, existing only in the memory of those who knew him; in the second he is a character, but only a secondary one; in the third he is the narrator of the story. A quest, then, but also a love story and a murder mystery, set against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of. This 2010 Random House Paperback is in \u003cb\u003e very good condition\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780099516170 SKU: 1168661 \u003ci\u003eNote: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48526940274965,"sku":"1168661","price":14.5,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0023\/2695\/4036\/files\/1168661.jpg?v=1725848653","url":"https:\/\/bookhaven.live\/products\/1168661","provider":"Book Haven","version":"1.0","type":"link"}