Der Grosse Eisenbahnraub: Roman

✍ Scribed by Crichton, Michael

• Book ID: 108177438
• Publisher: Rowohlt
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: en-ca
• Weight: 186 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 3426602911

✦ Synopsis

Review

"A nineteenth-century version of The Sting...Crichton fascinates us."-- The New, York Times Book Review -- Review

Product Description

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.

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. Based on remarkable fact, and alive with the gripping suspense, surprise, and authenticity that are his trademark, Michael Crichton's classic adventure is a breathtaking thrill-ride that races along tracks of steel at breakneck speed.