In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Rich, handsome and ingenious, 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 daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who would 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 novel, set a decade before the age of dynamite - yet nonetheless explosive...
- ISBN10 0440130999
- ISBN13 9780440130994
- Publish Date 1 June 1987 (first published 12 May 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Format Paperback
- Language English