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Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole 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. Stone's Fall is a business and finance novel, too. The author enjoys describing the capitalist games of the times -- even more so in the second, Parisian part, which involves the threat of an immense credit crunch and over-extended banks (and nations) brought close to their knees -- and there are obvious points of comparison to present-day events (exactly a century after the opening section ...). Matters are a bit simpler and simplistic back in the day, but Pears obviously means to show the fundamentals (and the actors ...) are still the same. Stone's Fall offers quite a lot of good entertainment, the presentation making for an unusual kind of three-in-one novel, with three fairly distinct stories. At 800 pages, Stone's Fall is a long book so get into your most comfy chair to read this one!Read full review
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