Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Escape from Thailand's Bangkok Hilton

David McMillan

मे २००७ · Monsoon Books

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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 escapes, never to be seen in Thailand again.

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David McMillan (London, England) masterminded a heroin-smuggling syndicate worth millions of dollars and planned numerous escape attempts from prisons around the world, before retiring in the late 1990s to London.