The Great Train Robbery By Michael Crichton

I actually finished reading this Michael Crichton book The Great Train Robbery two months back. It was a a very gripping novel narrating the Great Train Robbery of 1903. Crichton takes you through the characters and the plot and the England of 1903 with such ease that you think that probably he transported himself in a time machine for that purpose. At the end he tells you something though, which thankfully you don't get to know in the beginning. Meanwhile in passing you get to read a little about the Crimean War, in which the Charge of the Light Brigade took place. You read about the Indian Mutiny/First War of Independence, the artocities committed by the mutineers and the British thereafter and so on.