H.J. Oolbekkink Libri

The disappearance of Paul Billson, clerk in an engineering firm, seems a minor matter to security consultant, Max Stafford. But when routine enquiries result in Stafford being beaten up, he goes after Billson, who has impulsively taken off for the Sahara, where his air ace father had crashed during the London to Cape Town air race forty years earlier. A recent newspaper smear implied that Billson's father had rigged the crash to profit from an insurance scandal. Now Billson is intent on locating the plane and clearing his father's name - but someone is determined that he should never find it.

Samen met vrienden beraamt een Londense gentleman een overval op de trein die in 1856 iedere maand geld vervoert voor het Britse leger in Rusland.

Anno 1855. L'Impero Britannico manda al suo esercito impegnato in Crimea 12.000 sterline in lingotti d'oro custoditi in casse a prova di tutto. Le casseforti vengono caricate sul sorvegliatissimo espresso Londra-Parigi. A Parigi, però, ecco la sorpresa: le casseforti sono giunte con i sigilli intatti, ma dentro non c'è oro, solo pallini da caccia. L'incredibile storia del più audace colpo del secolo e del suo geniale ideatore, il ladro gentiluomo Edward Pierce.