by Iain Pears
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
IAIN PEARS was born in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian, and a television consultant in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of the international best seller An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio, a series of highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, an opera libretto, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects. He lives in Oxford, England.
Stone’s Fall is a work of historical fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people,
events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and
incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by Iain Pears
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Spiegel & Grau,
an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape,
a member of The Random House Group Limited, London, in 2009.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pears, Iain.
Stone’s fall/Iain Pears.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-385-53024-8
1. Capitalists and financiers—Fiction. 2. Arms transfers—Fiction.
3. International finance—Fiction. 4. Europe—History—1871–1918—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6066.E167S76 2009
823′.914—dc22 2009000472
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