Stone's fall
Iain Pears
Bok · Engelsk · 2009 · Historisk
| Utgitt | London : Jonathan Cape , 2009
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| Omfang | 597 s.
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| Opplysninger | From the publisher: A vast historical mystery, ambitious and complex. Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and arms dealer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire 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 moves backwards # from London in 1909 to Paris in 1890, and finally to Venice in 1867 # and in the process the quest to uncover the truth plays 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. An intricately plotted and richly satisfying puzzle # an erudite work of history and fiction that feels utterly true and oddly timely # and marks the triumphant return of one of the world#s great storytellers
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| ISBN | 978-0-224-08179-5
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