Billy Hayes leapt from prison isolation to international notoriety when the book about his five years in and escape from a Turkish prison became a worldwide bestseller, and an Academy Award-winning film.
On a dark night, in a wailing storm he began a desperate and daring escape to freedom... This is the astounding journey, told in Billy Hayes's own words, of those five years of living hell and of the harrowing ordeal of his time on the run.
If you thought "country" when you saw this title, guess again!
A true story of capture and incarceration; danger and degradation; hope and survival.
The author describes the years he spent in a Turkish jail for smuggling hashish and the escape plan he devised and carried out.