Fueled with gripping suspense and surprise, Michael Crichton's The Great Train Robbery is a breathtaking thrill-ride that races along tracks at breakneck speed.
Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side-by-side in Victorian London - and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century, the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce can not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England's industrial era: the mighty steam locomotive.