True stories of prison breaks including those of Frank Abagnale, whose story is told in Catch Me If You Can; Henri Charrière who claimed to have escaped from the supposedly inescapable Devil's Island - the true story as opposed to his questionable memoir, Papillon; Bud Day, said to be the only US serviceman ever to have escaped to South Vietnam; the six prisoners who escaped from Death Row in Mecklenburg Correctional Center; and Pascal Payeret, the French armed robber who escaped not once, but twice from French prisons with the help of a helicopter.
ISBN: | 9781472100238 |
Publication date: | 4th July 2013 |
Author: | Paul Simpson |
Publisher: | Robinson an imprint of Little, Brown |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 528 pages |
Series: | Mammoth Books |
Genres: |
True crime |