This is 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. Chronologically it goes backwards and Stone’s character deepens as the book progresses. A love story and a murder mystery set against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance Europe’s first great age of espionage and the start of the twentieth century’s arms race.