Stone's fall
By: Iain Pears.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9780385522847
Subjects: Capitalists and financiers -- Fiction; Arms transfers -- Fiction; International finance -- Fiction; Europe -- History -- 1871-1918 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: 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.