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Inside Alcatraz

ISBN 
9781784750664
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R320.00
Published 
January 2016
About the book: 

Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives. 

Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping from San Quentin, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to forty-five years in prison, and later transferred to Alcatraz. 

This is the true story of life inside America's most notorious prison - from terrifying times in solitary confinement to daily encounters with 'the Birdman', and what really happened during the desperate and deadly 1946 escape attempt.

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