A journalist probes a financier’s fatal fall, unraveling secrets of love, money, and espionage across London, Paris, and Venice.
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A journalist probes a financier’s fatal fall, unraveling secrets of love, money, and espionage across London, Paris, and Venice.
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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 manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents. A ...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Affairs and sexual content including incest and sexual deviancy
Violence & gore
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Fatal fall, arms dealing, explosives, and espionage peril
Profanity
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Substance use
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Narcotics in the plot; period social drinking
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Supernatural elements factor into the mystery’s resolution
Political content
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High finance, arms race, and espionage shape the historical backdrop
Self-harm / suicide
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Mysterious fatal fall raises accident, murder, or suicide questions
Abuse & suffering
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Incest and sexual exploitation themes in character backstories
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