
Signal Red
Robert Ryan(Author)
Headline Review (Publisher)
Published on 19. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
608 pages
978-0-7553-5820-5 (ISBN)
Description
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...
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Headline Publishing Group
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 47 mm
Weight
389 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7553-5820-5 (9780755358205)
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Person
Rob Ryan was born in Liverpool. He has written for The Face, Arena, Conde Nast Traveller, Esquire, GQ Magazine and The Sunday Times. He lives in north London with his wife and three children.