Grand Thieves & Tomb Raiders

Its become the greatest British invasion of them all: Lara Croft is a world famous pin-up, and the British-made Grand Theft Auto and its spin-offs have sold more than 120 million copies worldwide. Grand Thieves and Tomb Raiders is the first book to tell the amazing secret history of British videogames. It's a story of local talent bursting onto the international stage, and of a generation of brilliant bedroom programmers whose creations swept them to unimagined riches. Most of all, it's the story of how a uniquely British combination of ingenuity, bluff, and sheer luck has produced some of the greatest games of all time.