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Escape
The true story of the only Westerner ever to escape from Thailand's Bangkok Hilton
by David McMillan
Klong Prem prison, Thailand. The “Bangkok Hilton”, where 600 foreigners among the 12,000 inmates of
this walled prison city also wait and rot. Among the tragic, ruthless and forgotten, one man resolves to do what no
other has done: escape. This is the true story of drug smuggler David McMillan's perilous break-out from Asia's most
notorious prison.
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
escaped, never to be seen in Thailand again. |