PublishedHarper Collins, August 2018 |
ISBN9781460756232 |
FormatHardcover, 368 pages |
Dimensions24.5cm × 16.5cm × 3.5cm |
Australia's Number 1 True Crime Writer on Australia's Greatest Gold Robbery.
On 15 June 1862, a gang of bushrangers held up a gold escort at Eugowra, just east of Forbes, NSW. They escaped with a pile of cash and 77 kilograms of gold, worth about $10 million today. It remains the largest gold robbery in Australian history.
In this riveting re-creation of the events, James Phelps finally tells the full story of how Frank Gardiner, Ben Hall, John O'Meally, Johnny Gilbert, Henry Manns, Alexander Fordyce, John Bow and Dan Charters planned and executed the robbery - and what happened to all that gold. Australian Heist is a thrilling, fast-paced and thoroughly modern take on one of the most extraordinary episodes in the nation's history, by Australia's number-one true-crime writer.
Bill is one of the founders of Boffins and has been involved in selecting the books we stock since our beginning in 1989. His favourite reading is history, with psychology, current affairs, and business books coming close behind. His hobbies are reading, food, reading, drinking, reading, and sleeping.
Bushranger stories are a wonderful blend of true crime and history - especially theose set in the Australian gold rushes. James Phelps’s book is the sory of the biggest gold robbery in our history – 77 kg stolen in NSW in 1862, it would be worth $10 million today. It’s a real roll of our bushrangers: Frank Gardiner, Ben Hall, and 6 others pulled off this incredible heist. But what happened to the gold? Gardiner survived and died in Colorado in 1903. This racy telling of the story will suggest an answer – and it will be quite a surprise.
