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Prison break, Shantaram to the Bangkok Hilton: the world's most wanted Australians, Mark Dapin ; narrated by Henry Nixon

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Prison break, Shantaram to the Bangkok Hilton: the world's most wanted Australians, Mark Dapin ; narrated by Henry Nixon

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eng

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Prison break

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Mark Dapin ; narrated by Henry Nixon

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Shantaram to the Bangkok Hilton: the world's most wanted Australians

Summary

On a Sunday afternoon in 1980, armed robber Gregory David Roberts abseiled down the front wall of a maximum-security prison in broad daylight. He spent a decade on the run in West Asia before writing his own legend in the bestselling semi-autobiographical novel, Shantaram. In the late nineties, Melbourne-based drug dealer and gangster David McMillan became the only Australian ever to escape from the so-called 'Bangkok Hilton' in Thailand. And in 1999, armed robber John Killick was airlifted out of a maximum-security prison by his girlfriend - after she hijacked a helicopter with a machine gun. With unprecedented access to ex-prisoners, prison officers and police, as well as ASIO files and witnesses, Mark Dapin brings to life a hidden criminal world of prison brutality, courage and legend

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