Title : The Great Train Robbery
Genre : Historical Fiction 
Authors : Chrichton, Michael		 Reviewed by : Breck Sparks
        Once a month a train leaves for Paris, laden with gold bullion for the British Army fighting in Russia. The carriage is heavily guarded. The two safes are invulnerable; no way to break into them, four separate keys needed to unlock them. Every possible precaution is taken by the authorities. Then one month the safes arrive in Paris, but the gold is gone. Edward Pierce, a man whose past is unclear to all but himself, is the mastermind behind this seemingly impossible crime. We follow his every footstep in his quest for the four keys, and his search for the men to support him. Michael Crichton gives excellent background on everything, from Victorian architecture to Scotland Yard to dog fighting. This book is a wonderful insight to the dirty side of the Victorian times, the criminal underworld. It is very interesting, and you will not want to stop reading once you have started. Michael Crichton has written a great narrative (is it fact or fiction?), made even more compelling by the verisimilitude of its wonderfully fascinating detail. " 

Other books reviewed by Breck:
The Talisman
The Stand
Insomnia
Rainbow Six
Drawing of the Three