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Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton | 
 enlarge | Author: David Mcmillan
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 2032
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Edition with Illustrations
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1845963458
EAN: 9781845963453
ASIN: 1845963458
Publication Date: July 3, 2008
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 Worst book ever totally boring??? October 6, 2008
Danny Welsh (London)
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
I was really looking forward to reading this book and i can honestly say i have never been so bored. The book is called escape and at page 273 out of 317 pages he then starts to escape. I feel like i've been conned by reading this book. I've never reviewed a book before but i felt compelled to do so for this. The ending was rubbish as well a complete non-entity. DON"T BOTHER
 Engaging Escape September 7, 2008
Mr. A. J. Beckett (London, UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
David Mcmillans' superb writing skills and ability to place you within these prison walls made reading every chapter like you where there. He managed to succesfully potray his engaging escape and the daily routine of his prison life into a book that tops it genre without a doubt.
 Smuggler's Blues July 28, 2008
M. Edney (Wales, UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton
This is a book that stays with you for reasons hard to pin down. David McMillan seems different from the average smuggler/criminal and looking at Wikipedia its clear his background is not one that leads normally to crime. Wisely, he doesn't try to clean himself up for this account, although it seems by chance he'd been charged with someone else's stash.
The story moves along quickly once the scene is set, and the escape itself is worth the price of the book. There are similarities with Rusty Young's Marching Powder (the story of Thomas McFadden, a small-time English drug smuggler who was arrested in Bolivia) but more than just a presentation with the alien world of jailed traffickers, Escape goes further into the mind a determined schemer. What makes the real-life jail break work as a story is that it could be anyone trapped there, and I began to wonder just what I would do. Read Escape to find out.
Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Western collusion in Thai misery July 25, 2008
Ian Hughes (Bridgend,U.K.)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The author develops his story with litery skill,a real page turner.Smuggling is one of the Worlds oldest proffession,where there is a demand there is always someone ready to fill it,no matter what the risk.The chances of getting caught are minimal.David manages to stay objective,the horror he witnesses would traumatise most people.The Thai junkie who gets beaten half to death by the guards,then left to die in agony and then his murderer makes a joke at the victims sisters expense truly exposes the brutilising underbelly of Klon Prem.The collusion of Western Embessies and Police agencies is appalling and needs to be exposed for what it is,a blind eye to murder,all in the name of this barbaric 'War on Drugs'.This book should be required reading in all schools and included in the National Curiculum and a copy in every library.Well done David,good luck for the futore and if you manage another smuggle send something my way.
A must read! best book I've read in a long time July 10, 2008
fifi (United Kingdom)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book was truly an amazing read; it really leaves the reader wanting more. The tension and excitement throughout the book makes the reader feel like he/she is there the night he escaped and during the days before the escape. I feel the story has come from the heart; there are no exaggerations just a story of a real life experience. That determined life or death. David McMillan deserves credit for his writing it's a must read! For any age and gender.
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