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David McMillan

Escape Paperback – May 21, 2007

by David McMillan (Author)

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Among the 600 foreigners jailed in the 'Bangkok Hilton', 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 Thailand's most notorious prison. After more than a year in prison and two weeks before a near-certain death sentence, McMillan escapes, never to be seen in Thailand again.

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288 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.
Publication date

May 21, 2007
Dimensions

5 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches
ISBN-10

9810575688
ISBN-13

978-9810575687
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The true account of McMillan's escape from Bangkok's infamous Klong Prem prison reads better than any thriller. -- Stephen Leather, bestselling author of Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye and Private Dancer

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd. (May 21, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9810575688
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9810575687
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,665,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,853 in Southeast Asia Travel Guides
- #332,548 in Biographies (Books)

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David McMillan

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Born in London in 1956, David McMillan worked as a film technician before joining the drug-law reform movement. In the late ‘70s, McMillan became a smuggler between Asia and Australia, then South America and Europe. Although the contraband network was sophisticated, misfortune resulted in arrest and trial, twice resulting in potential death sentences in Asia.

In April, 2017, David McMillan publishes 'Unforgiving Destiny - The Relentless Pursuit of a Black Marketeer', focussing on his time in Afghanistan & Baluchistan and the pursuit by an obsessive US DEA agent. Copy the link below for detail, background & readings:

http://davidmcmillan.net/ davidmcmillan333@gmail.com

McMillan has written of his escape from a Thai prison in ESCAPE (Monsoon Books, 2007) and his early misadventures in ESCAPE: THE PAST (Monsoon Books, 2012).

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Troy G

A Good Read But Lacks Climax

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2011

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This book was a really good read and I was really enjoying it. But as I got deeper and deeper into the book I was starting to wonder when the actual escape attempt was going to take place.

It seems like this book is more of a book on life in the prison rather then the actual escape attempt itself. As that is only a very minor part of the book.

The book is still a good read but I was just hoping for a little bit more out of the actual escape itself - maybe the author could have spent a few more pages on the main point of the book?

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Johnny

great book

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2014

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awesome book, read it some time ago so dont remember specifics but do remember i flew through it in like 2 days. if you like true crim drug smuggling foreign prison type books you will love this one

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jari manninen

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2015

Great book.

Writing Style Frustrating

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2012

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I did not find this a pleasant read. Every paragraph seems to start a new topic and with a huge cast of characters it's easy to forget where this is going. I suppose if you were one to read a book in a few days, it would move quicker, but I tend to read 20-40 pages a night before sleep. I just found it scattered in it's writing and that leads to a frustrating read. I found that I was asking "who is this character now? Have we met him before? What do we know about him?" and coming up blank. There is no doubt an interesting story to be told and judging from the other reviews here, others did not find the same issues.

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Ellie Dufaur

A Powerful Real-life Break-out

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2008

I kept turning the pages on this one: a surprise for me because I don't like drug-smugglers and was expecting something smug from the one who got away. Every chapter is a self-contained story building up to the big night. Actually, the big night becomes less important since we know he got out but that doesn't spoil the story any more than knowing Charles de Gaulle wasn't assassinated in Day of the Jackal. Most of the people David meets in the prison are instantly real. I, like most readers, would want more of the life that led to the arrest and what happened next. I suppose that's coming and there couldn't be more packed in to a book 300 pages long. ESCAPE is a book I'll read again and don't hesitate to recommend to all readers.

17 people found this helpful

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Betty B

Very hard to follow along

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2014

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I found this book quite difficult to read. Alot of the story and situations were disjointed and hard to understand. I never got a sense of perspective and there were way too many names introduced all the time. The writer would have done better to write in a more focused and simpler prose. The book was a bit allover the place.

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Jennifer

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2012

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The book was very interesting at first and at the end but the in-between was boring. A lot of looking back in the past. It seemed to me it was just to fill up space.

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Patrick & Patricia Tolman

book

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2014

excellent.

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