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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...