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The Great Train Robbery

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

By Michael Crichton

By Michael Crichton

By Michael Crichton

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Paperback $16.95

Mar 11, 2014 | ISBN 9780804171281

Ebook $12.99

May 14, 2012 | ISBN 9780307816443

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    About The Great Train Robbery

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes classic historical thriller about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist.

    London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? 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…

    About The Great Train Robbery

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes classic historical thriller about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist.

    London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? 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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    See all books by Michael Crichton

    About Michael Crichton

    Michael Crichton was a writer, director, and producer, best known as the author of Jurassic Park and the creator of ER. One of the most recognizable names in literature and entertainment, Crichton sold more than 200 million copies of his books, which have been translated into 40 languages and… More about Michael Crichton

    About Michael Crichton

    Michael Crichton was a writer, director, and producer, best known as the author of Jurassic Park and the creator of ER. One of the most recognizable names in literature and entertainment, Crichton sold more than 200 million copies of his books, which have been translated into 40 languages and… More about Michael Crichton

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 11, 2014 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780804171281

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    May 14, 2012 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780307816443
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    Praise

    “A nineteenth-century version of The Sting…. Crichton fascinates us.” —The New York Times Book Review
     
    “A work of intelligence and craftsmanship…. Written with grace and wit.” —Los Angeles Times

    “One of the great storytellers of our age…. The best Michael Crichton novels are … edifying reads, whose gripping plots contain real ideas.” —Newsday

    “Crichton is a master at blending edge-of-the-chair adventure and a scientific seminar, educating his readers as he entertains them.” —Chicago Sun-Times

    “[Crichton] makes the unbelievable believable.” —Washington Post

    “[Crichton’s] stories are always page-turners of the highest order.” —The Denver Post

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