num_pages: 304
description: "A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWIn 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....
language: English
title: The Great Train Robbery
titlecomplete: The Great Train Robbery
characters: Edward Pierce
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Historical Fiction, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 30720
places: London, England, United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Silver)
publisher: Ballantine Books