The Great Train Robbery
Book Details
Author(s)Crichton, Michael
PublisherVintage
ISBN / ASIN0804171289
ISBN-139780804171281
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank47,454
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive....










