Escape (40 page)
“Gripping”
Zoo Weekly
, UK
“This is one of the world’s most notorious—and remarkable—heroin traffickers: Melbourne man David McMillan. Despite still being on the run, McMillan has written a book,
Escape
, about … his amazing breakout in Bangkok”
The Australian
“The jailbreak was straight out of a movie”
The Age
, Australia
“The book is exceptionally well written …
Escape
begs to be made into a movie”
Pattaya Mail
, Thailand
“Reads better than any thriller” Stephen Leather, bestselling author
of Private Dancer, Soft Target
and
Cold Kill
“Drug trafficker David McMillan … spent two years plotting his escape from a Bangkok jail”
BBC
“Inmates at HMP Erlestoke near Devizes, Wilts [UK], can borrow books from a catalogue including
Escape
by David McMillan, which describes how he broke out of Thailand’s ‘Bangkok Hilton’ prison”
The Telegraph
, UK
“In the style of Howard Marks—the international drug dealer who became a best-selling author—McMillan is touting a book about his prison escapades. The book, entitled
Escape
, is selling well in Asia”
London Evening Standard, UK
“David McMIllan is better known as ‘the only Westerner to have escaped the notorious Bangkok Hilton’… his story,
Escape
, has been selling well throughout Southeast Asia”
The Nation
, Thailand
Published in print by Monsoon Books in 2007
This electronic edition published in 2011 by Monsoon Books
ISBN (epub): 978-981-4358-35-4
ISBN (paperback): 978-981-05-7568-7
Copyright©David McMillan, 2007
Cover photograph copyright©Magnum Photos
Cover design by Sin E Design (
www.sinedesign.net
)
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