This is the novel that was the basis for the film by the same name that starred Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland. Edward Pierce gathers a collection of thieves to pull off a daring heist. England is in the midst of the Crimean War. Shipments of gold were sent by rail to the coast and then to the Crimea to pay the soldiers. Pierce concocts an audacious plan to steal the gold from the train between the Folkestone Station and the coast. Most of the story is the several months of preparation that is needed to copy the sets of safe keys needed and figure out how to get inside the locked baggage car before the train leaves the station. Crichton loosely based his novel and the subsequent movie on an actual event. The added complications to the plot were creations of Crichton's.
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