The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery
Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2012-05-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307816443

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…

The First Great Train Robbery

The First Great Train Robbery
Author: David C. Hanrahan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Train robberies
ISBN: 9780709090403

In May 1855, the citizens of Victorian Great Britain were shocked to read in their morning edition of The Times that 12,000 pounds worth of gold bars and other valuables had been stolen from a train travelling between London and Paris--without explosives or violence! Who did it and how was a great mystery which was finally solved.

Great Train Robbery

Great Train Robbery
Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2002-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0060502304

Contains excerpt from State of fear by Michael Crichton (2002).

Baby's First Train Robbery

Baby's First Train Robbery
Author: Jim Whalley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1526608952

Frank's long-suffering parents decide it's time for a holiday – looking after a whole zooful of animals is VERY hard work. Leaving Gran in charge, they set off. But the further from home they get, the more anxious Frank gets. What if Gran can't cope? What if his animals need him? He decides to take drastic action – with dire consequences! A nail-biting follow-up to the bestselling Baby's First Bank Heist and Baby's First Jailbreak.

The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery
Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781417617852

One of Crichton's classic thrillers--the New York Times bestseller which was the basis for the 1979 film adapted and directed by the author--is reissued with a new look. In 1855 London, a group of thieves plan a daring robbery of gold bullion cargo aboard a mighty steam locomotive as it speeds along the English countryside. Reissue.

Jesse James and the First Missouri Train Robbery

Jesse James and the First Missouri Train Robbery
Author: Beights, Ronald H.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781455606658

The train robbery by the James-Younger gang in 1874 at Gads Hill, Missouri, was a big news item of the day. Americannewspapers from as far away as New York and Boston carried the story, and journalists in St. Louis, Chicago, and even European cities wrote scathing editorials about the crime. In time, the excitement subsided, but the raid at Gads Hill had a lasting effect on the lives of the James and Younger brothers. Dramatic events that occurred during the robbery, retreat, and pursuit brought the bandits world-wide attention and became the source for much of the Jesse James legend we know today. Here, told largely by trainmen, passengers, farmers, detectives, outlaws, news reporters, and others who were directly or indirectly involved with thecrime, is a true, documented account of Frank and Jesse James, the Younger brothers, and Missouri�s first train robbery. Many of the photographs included have never been published.

Disclosure

Disclosure
Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345539001

From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an electrifying thriller in which a shocking accusation of sexual harassment triggers a gripping psychological game of cat and mouse and threatens to derail a brilliant career. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A fresh and provocative story.”—People An up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom, Tom Sanders is a man whose corporate future is certain. But after a closed-door meeting with his new boss—a woman who is his former lover and has been promoted to the position he expected to have—Sanders finds himself caught in a nightmarish web of deceit in which he is branded the villain. As Sanders scrambles to defend himself, he uncovers an electronic trail into the company’s secrets—and begins to grasp that a cynical and manipulative scheme has been devised to bring him down. “Crichton writes superbly. . . . The excitement rises with each page.”—Chicago Tribune “A heart-stop story running on several tracks at once. Disclosure is up to [Crichton’s] usual locomotive speed.”—The Boston Globe “Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Stealing the General

Stealing the General
Author: Russell S. Bonds
Publisher: Westholme Publishing
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

In April 1862, 20 Union soldiers crossed Confederate lines to steal a locomotive called the General and destroy a critical Confederate supply line. In the aftermath half the team was executed; the half that escaped received the newly established Medal of Honor. -- publishers description.

How to Rob a Train

How to Rob a Train
Author: Gordon Goody
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-11-10
Genre: Thieves
ISBN: 9781908479815

Gordon Goody is the mystery man of the Great Train Robbery, the most notorious theft in British history. Regarded by his partners as tough and fearless, he has kept his silence for five decades. Until now. Raised in rural Northern Ireland, Goody served as an army sergeant but chose a life of crime and became one of the most professional and prolific robbers in London. He and his gang were offered the job of a lifetime: details of a Glasgow to London mail train laden with cash, provided by The Ulsterman, whose identity Goody reveals for the first time.

The Train Robbers

The Train Robbers
Author: Piers Paul Read
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0753550091

On Thursday August 8, 1963, fifteen masked men stopped the night train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of £2,500,000 (the equivalent of £41 million today). It was called the crime of the century, and the thieves were relentlessly pursued by Scotland Yard until half the gang were behind bars serving huge prison terms. But the story did not end there. First one, then another escaped in thrilling style and fled abroad, catching the world's imagination and making the Train Robbers into folk heroes. Thirteen years later, the gang combined to tell their story, and Piers Paul Read, author of the bestselling Alive, agreed to write it. This is the classic, complete and exclusive story of the twentieth-century's most audacious crime and its even more sensational aftermath.