Billy Hayes and the Midnight Express

Billy Hayes and the Midnight Express
December 5

For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when
he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home
in America. It was the year when he was arrested at Istanbul
airport, tried, and sentenced to 30 years in a Turkish jail. For
five years he suffered the filth, brutality and degradation of
imprisonment in an environment of hellish squalor, while his family
fought in vain to secure his release. Finally in desperation, he
made a daring escape bid and incredibly the bid succeeded. This is
the astounding true story, 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. Vivid and realistic without being morbid, it is a
classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humour,
intelligence and total honesty.

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