The inspiration behind BBC One's thrilling new drama, The Great Train Robbery.
Sunday Times bestseller Robert Ryan brings the most ambitious heist of the twentieth century to gripping and vivid life.
1963: an unarmed gang led by the dapper Bruce Reynolds holds up a Royal Mail train at a remote bridge in Buckinghamshire, escaping with millions. The group lay low in a nearby farm but, panicked by the police closing in they clear out, leaving behind numerous fingerprints.
Outraged by the gang's audacity and under political pressure for quick arrests, the police move into top gear. As huge quantities of money start to turn up in forests and phone boxes, dumped by nervous middlemen, Scotland Yard begin to track down the robbers, one by one...
| ISBN: | 9780755358205 |
| Publication date: | 19th August 2010 |
| Author: | Rob Ryan |
| Publisher: | Headline Review an imprint of Headline Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 593 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Crime and Mystery |
The inspiration behind BBC One's thrilling new drama, The Great Train Robbery.
Sunday Times bestseller Robert Ryan brings the most ambitious heist of the twentieth century to gripping and vivid life.
1963: an unarmed gang led by the dapper Bruce Reynolds holds up a Royal Mail train at a remote bridge in Buckinghamshire, escaping with millions. The group lay low in a nearby farm but, panicked by the police closing in they clear out, leaving behind numerous fingerprints.
Outraged by the gang's audacity and under political pressure for quick arrests, the police move into top gear. As huge quantities of money start to turn up in forests and phone boxes, dumped by nervous middlemen, Scotland Yard begin to track down the robbers, one by one...
Signal Red features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Crime and Mystery
Signal Red is available in Paperback
Signal Red was written by Rob Ryan and published by Headline Review an imprint of Headline Publishing Group
Signal Red has 593 pages
£9.89