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The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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. 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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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Michael Crichton
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Published
- 1975
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780394494012
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (32 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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