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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 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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- Audio CD
- ISBN-10: 0788747452
- ISBN-13: 9780788747458
- Publisher: Recorded Books Inc
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Library Binding and School & Library Binding
- In other languages: other languages
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Sandeep Rajeev 
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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