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Escape
The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of Thailand's Bangkok Hilton
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About The Book
From his arrest at Don Muang airport, to awaiting trial inside Klong Prem, he provides an insight into the lives of the British, Australian, American and other Western prisoners as they are destroyed by disease, neglect and despair. Death is their only way out. Two weeks before a near-certain death sentence McMillan escapes, never to be seen in Thailand again.
Product Details
- Publisher: Monsoon (December 1, 2021)
- Length: 288 pages
- ISBN13: 9781912049967
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Raves and Reviews
This is one of the world's most notorious—and remarkable—heroin traffickers: Melbourne man David McMillan. Despite still being on the run, McMillan has written a book, Escape, about … his amazing breakout in Bangkok.
– The Australian
The jailbreak was straight out of a movie.
– The Age, Australia
Gripping.
– Zoo Weekly, UK
Once McMillan puts his daring plan into place, the action rips along like a thriller … breathtaking stuff.
– News of the World, UK
Drug trafficker David McMillan … spent two years plotting his escape from a Bangkok jail.
– BBC
Reads better than any thriller.
– Stephen Leather, Bestselling author
The book is exceptionally well written … Escape begs to be made into a movie.
– Pattaya Mail, Thailand
Inmates at HMP Erlestoke near Devizes, Wilts [UK], can borrow books from a catalogue including Escape by David McMillan, which describes how he broke out of Thailand's ‘Bangkok Hilton' prison.
– The Telegraph, UK
In the style of Howard Marks—the international drug dealer who became a best-selling author—McMillan is touting a book about his prison escapades. The book, entitled Escape, is selling well in Asia.
– London Evening Standard, UK
David McMIllan is better known as ‘the only Westerner to have escaped the notorious Bangkok Hilton' … his story, Escape, has been selling well throughout Southeast Asia.
– The Nation, Thailand
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