| ||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Trade in Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Plus, get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
"The chapters as the escape draws near move with break-neck speed of the best thrillers."
--News of the World, July 20, 2008
"As the escape draws near the book moves with the break-neck speed of the best thrillers."
--News of the World, July 20, 2008
--News of the World, July 20, 2008
"As the escape draws near the book moves with the break-neck speed of the best thrillers."
--News of the World, July 20, 2008
Book Description
A vivid account of the only successful escape from Thailand's Klong Prem prison by a British man
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Escape is one of the best books of the year, out of the twenty or so I've read. I didn't want just another exaggerated list of gruesome events (although the fatal punishment meted out to five who went for the wall and failed was pretty shocking) but a picture of the reality of life in that Thai prison. The detail of the Westerners trapped inside clearly makes the point: almost no one gets out alive. So here we have the words of the only one to actually do it, and those words are worth hearing. The police were waiting for McMillan and did everything to make sure he got death, with one policeman from an embassy visiting to gloat: `You'll be in here for twenty years, if you live that long!' All the other books are by people who just sat and waited for someone to open the door. Here is the one exception, and his memories make an amazing story.
Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton
Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought Escape after listening to author David McMillan interviewed on Dublin's 98 Radio. He sounded quite the opposite of the career criminal he admits to, and after reading Escape I read half-a-dozen of the other prison-hell stories. Only Escape and Marching Powder seem to convey the realities of the drug/jail world. The others give what most of the public seem to want - unrelenting grisly events, probably exaggerated, in books unconnected by any solid story. I've read Escape twice now, and it improves on a second reading when you know the outcome and so have time to enjoy the humour and world-weary cynicism of McMillan's Sam Spade style. I heard him say on the radio that being involved in the drug world was a `betrayal' but sensibly he doesn't sound remorseful in the book. Nothing makes a lynch mob happy anyway, except a rope. The book was recently blacklisted in UK prisons, but Escape's essential reading for anyone at all interested in stories of true survival.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this on a plane out of Asia and enjoyed every page. I've seen some bad reviews of this book but I've only read a couple of this type. For me, Escape is terrific and very good. Maybe some readers are impatient but the payoff - the escape - had me on the edge of my seat. Worth taking a chance with this, and worth reading twice.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Was this review helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Worst in the genre
I have read and enjoyed many of this type of book over the years but this was very poor in comparison. It's just a badly written, rambling book. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Cult Fiction
The most boring book I've read
Absolutely dreadful book. Boring and very badly written. The author tells a very long (and dubious) story of his time in jail and it's not until you get to the last chapter that... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Unabryn
Okay, but not the best of this genré
The book, I found was pretty hard to follow.. After just finishing welcome to hell and midnight express I thought by the reviews i'd saved the best till last and couldn't wait for... Read more
Published 17 months ago by L. Calcott
A tour to the heart of darkness
McMillan shows himself to be a highly intelligent, resourceful man with remarkable reservoirs of nerve. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Tom Corbould
Escape
A facinating tale, Mcmillian is an amazing individual. Escape gives a great insight into the grim Thai prison system. Read more
Published on 10 May 2010 by Mr. M. Harvey
Griping Escape
IT was not Until the End OF this book that i was truly Griped by David's story. when he was Escaping i actuality felt my self climbing up the walls with him. Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2010 by Mr. Craig A. Baker
Good story, rubbish book
Difficult to read and I found myself literally skipping across pages as the author was waffling and rambling. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2010 by Mancunian
bit boring really
truth is this was i real let down well boring, did not even bother reading it twice
didnt seem to be that much of a hell for him in there , but real boring book this one,... Read more
didnt seem to be that much of a hell for him in there , but real boring book this one,... Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2009 by j buckley
Wrong prison
I was incarcerated in klong prem correctional facility in `05, this is not the Bangkok Hilton, that is Bang Kwan & this prison is so easy that all he has written abouut is made... Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2009 by M. J. Jones
Escape to the last few chapters. Most of the book just doesn't make...
Having read practically most of the other books on this subject, Escape has to be the least enjoyable of the lot. Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2009 by Mr. G. Hoare
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
![[Start the discussion]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/communities/discussion_boards/start-new-discussion-sec._V192198663_.gif){kind=small}
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
