The Great Train Robbery.The Andromeda Strain

THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist
side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease.
Rich, handsome and ingenious, Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent
of the w ell-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century.

Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the
daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of
making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial
era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and
studded with all the suspense and style of a modern Fiction master, here is a
classic novel, set a decade before the age of dynamite -
yet nonetheless explosive...

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
Five prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning: sterilisation procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.