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Book 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.
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artie said on May 3, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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The Great Train Robbery
In this novel Crichton has moved away from his usual genre and has fictionalized The Great Gold Robbery of 1855. The author does an excellent job portraying the cunning mind of William (Edward) Pierce as he meticulously pieces together what he needs to achieve a seemingly impossible feat.
Readingrat said on Aug 20, 2008 | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Mass Market Paperback 352 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0060502304
- ISBN-13: 9780060502300
- Publisher: Avon
- Pub date: Nov 01, 2002
- Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding and School & Library Binding
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780060502300 | Mass Market Paperback | $7.99 | $7.19 | bn.com |
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English "Arsene Lupin"
Like a lot of Crichton's fan had said, this book might be the best (not the most famous) book he has ever written. Though I still think Crichton's talent is more on entertaining readers with sci-fi thrillers, you can almost feel his enthusiasm to the historical legends.
The story is kind of l ... (continue)
Like a lot of Crichton's fan had said, this book might be the best (not the most famous) book he has ever written. Though I still think Crichton's talent is more on entertaining readers with sci-fi thrillers, you can almost feel his enthusiasm to the historical legends.
The story is kind of lending itself to be a fascinating myth of “Great Train Robbery.” Crichton has used the leisure from a fiction, while he has added a lot of facts in the background, to cover up his speculations without getting reprimands of inaccuracy. Same technique is borrowed by other books, like State of Fear and other historical fictions.
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