Category:
History,
True CrimeLanguage:
EnglishKeywords:
19th Century Australian BushrangersWritten by James Phelps
Read by Peter Hosking
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Release date
20-02-2019
Language
English
Format
Audiobook
Length
8 hrs and 34 mins
Publisher
HarperAudio
Categories
Biographies & Memoirs
Australia’s number one true-crime writer on Australia’s greatest gold robbery.
On June 15, 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 recreation 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.
©2018 James Phelps (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers