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Train Robbers Royal Mail, The By Piers Paul Read DJ 1st American Edition
The Train Robbers Royal Mail By Piers Paul Read 255 Pages FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
Hard cover with Dust Jacket Copyright 1978
On August 6, 1963, fifteen masked men stopped the night mail train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of bank notes worth $7,000,000. The Great Train Robbery was immediately proclaimed the crime of the century. But until now, the full story of the biggest cash heist in history has remained untold.
In The Train Robbers, the thieves, most of whom have been released on parole, break their silence and tell their complete, exclusive story to Piers Paul Read, the author of Alive. What results is an extraordinary book, the first to flesh out the newspaper reports, trial transcripts, and police records with the confessions of the criminals themselves.
A brilliantly written account both of the robbery and of the relentless, global pursuit of the notorious Train Gang by the sleuths of Scotland Yard. The Train Robbers pulsates with the energy and drama of a thriller. But the book is predominantly an anatomy of the two gangs that combined forces to pull off the robbery-the personalities, the tensions, the meticulous planning and audacious execution, the measure of luck-and of the milieu that produced them. It probes deep into the London underworld and into the strangely symbiotic relationship between crime and law enforcement, a relationship sustained by corruptible police, bribable jurors, dishonest lawyers, and capricious justice.
Maintaining the same detachment and displaying the same subtlety of observation that marked his account of the Andes survivors, Read tells a fast-paced and exciting story, peeling away the robbers' masks and revealing, in a last astonishing chapter, their final impudence.
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