Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Great Train Robbery / Blind Love / Brown on Resolution / Where are the Children? / Among the Elephants.

by Reader's Digest Association (Editor), Michael Crichton, Patrick Cauvin

The Great Train Robbery / Michael Crichton;
Blind Love / Patrick Cauvin;
Brown on Resolution / C.S. Forester;
Where are the Children? / Mary Higgins Clark;
Among the Elephants / Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton

Contents:

The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
For most people, "The Great Train Robbery" is the brutal crime perpetrated by Ronald Biggs and associates in 1963. In fact, this book tells of the original "Great Train Robbery", a far more fascinating operation. It took place over a hundred years earlier when its ingenuity and brazen impertinence won it the title of "The Crime of the Century".

In presenting his thrilling version of how this coup was planned and executed, best-selling novelist Michael Crichton not only brings the arch-criminals vividly to life, but also recreates all the glamour and squalor of the Victorian Underworld.


Blind Love by Patrick Cauvin
This international best-seller is, quite simply, a love story-but a love story with a difference. It tells of a middle-aged schoolmaster who lives an uneventful and unassuming life, until he meets a young woman who is rich, beautiful-and blind.

Patrick Cauvin writes of these two strangely starred lovers with a profound understanding of human nature and of the problems of blindness and loneliness. He describes their uncertainty, awkwardness and happiness with extra-
ordinary delicacy and skill.

It is a novel that goes straight to the heart.


Brown on Resolution by C.S. Forester;
This famous novel about the lone Leading Seaman, who challenged the whole might of a hostile German cruiser with no more than a rifle, is one of the great classics that established Forester as England's finest naval writer. His deep understanding of ships and sailors, his brilliant ability to create suspense and to describe what it is really like to be
in action make this a book that can be read with pleasure, again and again.


Where are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark;
Nancy Eldredge has a home, a husband and two beautiful children. Her haunted past from seven years ago seems safely buried, until suddenly the most dreaded nightmare strikes: the children disappear. Suspected by the police, doubted even by her husband, Nancy cannot say where they have gone.


Among the Elephants by Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton
This is the story of a young man who was so fascinated by elephants that he went to live among them. During the
five years he spent observing the massive herds in Tanzania's famous Lake Manyara National Park, he came to love not only the exotic world of Africa but also a beautiful girl called Oria. She was to become his wife, mother of his children and co-author of this unforgettable book.

512 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

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