by Michael Crichton
(1972)
Publisher: Open Road Media
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From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an enthralling novel about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist.
Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London — and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city’s most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century, the daring theft of a fortune in gold. At that time, the railways were seen as the symbol of progress and technological advancement.
But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England’s industrial era: the mighty steam locomotive. The mastermind, Edward Pierce is the quintessential evil genius. He has the bearing, manners and charm of a gentleman but he is the master manipulator.
Based on remarkable fact, and alive with the gripping suspense, surprise, and authenticity that are his trademarks, Michael Crichton’s classic adventure is a breathtaking thrill-ride that races along tracks of steel at breakneck speed. Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…
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