A tour de force in the tradition of Iain Pears’ international bestseller,An Instance of the Fingerpost,Stone’s Fallweaves a story of love and high finance into the fabric of a page-turning thriller. A novel to stand alongsideAtonementandThe Remains of the Day. A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart,Stone’s Fallis 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 Fallis 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. From the Hardcover edition.