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Midnight Express

By: Billy Hayes, William Hoffer
Narrated by: Billy Hayes
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Midnight Express tells the gut-wrenching true story of a young man's incarceration and escape from a Turkish prison. A classic story of survival and human endurance told with humor, honesty, and heart, it became the Academy Award-winning blockbuster film of the same name.

In 1970, Billy Hayes was an English major who left college in search of adventures to write about, like his hero Jack London. He had a rude awakening when he was arrested at the airport in Istanbul trying to board a plane while carrying four pounds of hashish, and given a life sentence. After five brutal years, relentless efforts by his family to gain his release, and endless escape-plotting, Hayes finally took matters into his own hands. 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' own words, of those five years of living hell and of the harrowing ordeal of his time on the run.

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A very emotional story, narrated by the author and crazy story. The punishment didn't fit the crime.

A sombre story with a crazy prison escape

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Well read and interesting. I remember seeing the movie as a kid and learnt a strong message regarding travel laws!

Insightful

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It was good, interesting, well narrated, just not 'gripping '. A good read. A great time filler

Good not great

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Amazing really that someone can be put through so much torture for something that is now legal! This is well written, well narrated, absorbing and utterly mesmerising at times.

Powerful and moving

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like most audiobooks, it was great that it was also narrated by the author. It has a lot more in it than in the movie and its interesting that the ending is different to the ending in the movie. I don't know why they changed the ending in the movie because it is much less interesting than in the book

great story

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