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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
Michael Crichton
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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

by Michael Crichton

Knopf · 2012

Peak rank

#3

Weeks on list

20

Debuted

June 1975

Chart History

#1510151975
dashed = off the list

20 weeks on the Hardcover Fiction list, peaking at #3

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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ISBN-13
9780307816443
ISBN-10
0307816443
Published
2012
Pages
288
Publisher
Knopf
Categories
Fiction

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