- Mystery, Literature, Capitalists and financiers, Fiction
A return to the form that launched Iain Pears onto bestseller lists around the world: a vast historical mystery, marvelous in its ambition and ingenius in its complexity.In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and arms dealer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to…
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Grave, cool, epic and meticulous.
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- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Iain Pears
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 602
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada, Jonathan Cape, Spiegel and Grau
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9781409076933
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