Signal Red: A Novel Based on the Great Train Robbery

Robert Ryan managed to explain to me the life in 1960's in just 588 pages, I am very impressed by the ability of Robert Ryan to explain the 1960's while he's writing the book in the 21st century.

The starting was in 1992 where one of the robbers were surrounded by cops to catch him and the story transported into time, and the story began as if you were one of them.
The book talks about a non armed gang stealing a package from the Heathrow airport where they found that it was not worth it, there were a small amount of money in the package, which was enough for some fancy dinners for a month, the problems was gaining a simple amount of money and lossing two gang members.

The second robbery was as the following, go big or go home( the show more prison), but all the members took the risk and involved in a lifetime robbery, they aimed at a royal mail train en route to London.
The gang were lead by the leader Bruce Reynolds, accomplished the crime successfully, with the planning and the job done perfectly, they found they're self with much more money than they ever need.
But it wasn't over were the police knew that they did it but they had no evidence, the police were bothered from the pressure from the bigger men on duty, they had only one option, which was fabricating evidence.

The story showed to me that overdoing something will not help you, as I read what happened to the police were they became corrupted, and stealing so much money which they couldn't handle, didn't make anybody happy, they all became famous nobody gained the "perfect" life.
It was a well designed story going from the from the future to the past and then going to the future and so on. show less