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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…

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