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Stone's Fall

By: Iain Pears
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Daniel Coonan, Jonathan Keeble
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 This is the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War I he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed whole countries and continents.

A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stoneï¿¿ï¿¿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, and Stone's character deepens as the book progresses. Here is 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 espionage, and the start of the 20th century's arms race.

©2009 Iain Pears (P)2009 Isis Publishing Ltd Historical Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting Heartfelt Mystery England
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This was a new type of story for me. It introduced me to the capitalist perspective - I particularly related to naive reporter who was the first of the three narrators. I could not put this audiobook down, it was intriguing. The three narrators told the story beautifully.

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