The Great Train Robbery (Roman) - Softcover

Crichton, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034539092X ISBN 13: 9780345390929

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1995

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Book by Crichton Michael

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In 1855, mysterious master criminal Edward Pierce plans and carries out, with three accomplices, the impossible robbery of the monthly London-to-Paris train carrying gold bullion for the British army in the Crimea. Reprint.

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teenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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....

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 034539092X
• ISBN 13: 9780345390929
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 281