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A carregar... The Great Train Robbery (original 1975; edição 2014)por Michael Crichton (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Esta novela de acción es una auténtica obra maestra del género. Ambientada en la època victoriana, el brumoso Londres finisecular sirve de telón de fondo para el robo más espectacular del siglo. Una vez al mes sale de Londres con destino a París un tren que transporta la paga del ejército británico que lucha en Crimea. Las dos cajas fuertes que la contienen son inviolables, y para abrirlas, se necesitan cuatro llaves distintas que están en poder de cuatro personas. Sin embargo, las cajas llegan vacias a París.... This was fun. A "highly fictionalized" (according to the wiki gods) account of the planning and execution of the theft of gold bullion (worth approximately 1.2 million dollars in today's money) from a train in motion on the London to Folkestone run in 1855. The word "novel" is prominent on the cover, so no one should be misled, but it reads very much like good narrative non-fiction. For sheer 19th century hi-jinks, though, this is right up there with The Wild, Wild, West, and almost as preposterous. Liberties are taken with the facts, but it did happen, and almost caused an international incident as the gold was bound for France. As usual, Crichton's story-telling is irresistible. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive ... Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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