Customer Reviews
Something New - By: Garcia Jm Saul, 10 Oct 2008 
I've never been a dedicated True Crime reader so I read a few of these books & recently ESCAPE. It seems like people either love it or hate it - depending on expectations. I had none & it has only been a second reading that I understand the approach this guy's taken. The book reads like a thriller or the old-style detective writing. I read on a blog that McMillan took that style thinking that he `didn't want people's prejudices to getin the way. The 50 real-life characters say all there is about the drug world, & don't need me claiming innocence.' Whatever, the build-up to the big night really is the story, & I know this book is something I'll come back to again & again. In structure, a tone like that of The Savage Garden Highly recommended.
Worst book ever totally boring??? - By: Danny Welsh, 06 Oct 2008 
I was really looking forward to reading this book & i can honestly say i have never been so bored. The book is called escape & at page 273 out of 317 pages he then starts to escape. I feel like i've been conned by reading this book. I've never reviewed a book before but i felt compelled to do so for this. The ending was rubbish as well a complete non-entity. DON"T BOTHER
Engaging Escape - By: Mr. A. J. Beckett, 07 Sep 2008 
David Mcmillans' superb writing skills & ability to place you within these prison walls made reading every chapter like you where there. He managed to succesfully potray his engaging escape & the daily routine of his prison life into a book that tops it genre without a doubt.
Smuggler's Blues - By: M. Edney, 28 Jul 2008 Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok Hilton
This is a book that stays with you for reasons hard to pin down. David McMillan seems different from the average smuggler/criminal & looking at Wikipedia its clear his background is not one that leads normally to crime. Wisely, he doesn't try to clean himself up for this account, although it seems by chance he'd been charged with someone else's stash.
The story moves along quickly once the scene is set, & the escape itself is worth the price of the book. There are similarities with Rusty Young's Marching Powder (the story of Thomas McFadden, a small-time English drug smuggler who was arrestedin Bolivia) but more than just a presentation with the alien world of jailed traffickers, Escape goes further into the mind a determined schemer. What makes the real-life jail break work as a story is that it could be anyone trapped there, & I began to wonder just what I would do. Read Escape to find out.
Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Western collusion in Thai misery - By: Ian Hughes, 25 Jul 2008 The author develops his story with litery skill,a real page turner.Smuggling is one of the Worlds oldest proffession,where there is a demand there is always someone ready to fill it,no matter what the risk.The chances of getting caught are minimal.David manages to stay objective,the horror he witnesses would traumatise most people.The Thai junkie who gets beaten half to death by the guards,then left to diein agony & then his murderer makes a joke at the victims sisters expense truly exposes the brutilising underbelly of Klon Prem.The collusion of Western Embessies & Police agencies is appalling & needs to be exposed for what it is,a blind eye to murder,allin the name of this barbaric 'War on Drugs'.This book should be required readingin all schools & includedin the National Curiculum & a copyin every library.Well done David,good luck for the futore & if you manage another smuggle send something my way.
