by Michael Crichton
Takes the true story and uses literary license gives us a novel of how the robbery was committed. I enjoyed the book. The language was colorful and I needed the translations provided in the book. I liked how history was interspersed in the book as well as the social history of that time so I coul...
In Victorian London, can Edward Pierce and his cronies pull off a train heist and get away with a fortune in gold bullion?Like quite a few of my reads over the years, this book appeared on my radar courtesy of Kemper. We were discussing the Breaking Bad episode Dead Freight and he asked if I'd ever ...
3.5 Stars
Crichton's 1975 airport thriller ages surprisingly well (40 years old!), being still readable to the modern TV/video game addict choked up on Ritalin, caffeine, Citalis etc.at times verging upon non-fiction in depth of detail and authoritarian voice, this novelization of the 1855 Great Gold Robbery ...
For some reason, whenever someone had mentioned this book to me earlier, I had always pictured a cowboy on horseback chasing down a train in the wild, wild west, complete with a lasso in his hand. I have no idea how I made that relation but the image stuck. And since cowboys and westerns were not re...
I started off not liking it, as I really didn't understand how he was going to balance the history with the dramatization and I also felt that mentioning the trial early on was a bit of a let down. However, in this day and age, all this stuff is on the internet anyway. I was eventually presently s...
Well the history lesson in the introduction was boring as hell and come to find out this is a true story - I hate true stories! A very well thought out plan by Edward Pierce which he then carefully executed over a years time one step at a time. A very clever crime but a rather boring telling of the ...
work mp3A fictionalised account of .The.Crime. of the Victorian Era. Ooopins of factual points about nineteenth century London, it's geography and denizens, and the crime itself is reconstructed from court papers. This was made into a film, which I'll have to track (hee!) down and I love me some Sea...
What a great story! Set in Victorian England (a time period that I love) and based on a true story. Had some great plot twists and kept me guessing right up until the very end!
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