General:
Name: Prison Break – Shantaram To the Bangkok Hilton, the World’s Most Wanted Australians
Format: epub
Size: 4.53 MB
Book:
Title: Prison Break
Author: Mark Dapin
Language: English
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total pages: N/A
Description:
Dapin’s words cut into the organs of the criminal underworld like a surgeon’s knife!’ DAVID McMILLAN, Klong Prem Central Prison Bangkok escapee
‘Mark Dapin has built a rapport with some of Australia’s most serious criminals. It is a rapport that gives him an edge over other authors that cannot be replicated.’BERNIE MATTHEWS, Long Bay Correctional Centre escapee
On a Sunday afternoon in 1980, armed robber Gregory David Roberts abseiled down the front wall of a maximum-security prison in broad daylight. He spent a decade on the run in West Asia before writing his own legend in the bestselling semi-autobiographical novel, Shantaram.
In the late nineties, Melbourne-based drug dealer and gangster David McMillan became the only Australian ever to escape from the so-called ‘Bangkok Hilton’ in Thailand.
And in 1999, armed robber John Killick was airlifted out of a maximum-security prison by his beautiful Russian-born girlfriend – after she hijacked a helicopter with a…