Prison Break: Shantaram to the Bangkok Hilton: The World’s Most Wanted Australians by Mark Dapin

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

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 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 machine gun.

With unprecedented access to ex-prisoners, prison officers and police, as well as ASIO files and witnesses, Mark Dapin brings to life a hidden criminal world of prison brutality, courage and legend. Prison Break tells the real story behind Australia's most audacious prison escapes and proves that sometimes the truth is even more compelling than the myth.

Prison Break tells the real story behind Australia's most daring prison escapes and shows that sometimes the truth is more compelling than the myth. (back cover)