There were chases across rural Ireland, through Scottish cities, across the Atlantic on ships heading toward Manhattan and - most exotic of all - Cuba, where the most elusive thief would eventually be captured, only to escape again. There were double crosses and miraculous escapes. At the heart of the story is the charming criminal genius Austin Bidwell who, on the brink of escaping with his fortune, saw his luck finally run out. In The Thieves of Threadneedle Street, Nicholas Booth tells the extraordinary true story of the forgers' earliest escapades, culminating in the heist at the world's leading financial institution. In the summer of 1873, four American forgers went on trial at the Old Bailey for the greatest fraud the world had ever seen: the attempted theft of five million dollars from the Bank of England. The greatest untold crime saga of the Victorian Era: the extraordinary true story of four American forgers who tried to steal five million dollars from the Bank of England.
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