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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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Brilliant true life story , narrative is absorbing! it's a different ending to the movie but a true story of the horror of the Turkish prison and justice system

loved the movie , couldn't wait to hear the book

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very good read, gets straight to it and doesn't spend ages describing his childhood etc, gives us just enough that we need to know. The book is way better than the movie. It's really hard to imagine having to live like that, being kept basically how we would keep pigs or goats, terrible. definitely worth the read. It's one of those books that you just can't put down.

you won't be disappointed!

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Loved it don't understand why the film never just done this story this was better. Glad I bought this and will defo be listening again in the near future. Terrible what he went through.

superb and well read by Billy

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A compelling story of a stupid mistake that leads to the greatest suffering and then redemption. I didn’t want this to stop and If Audible had Billy Hayes’ sequel I’d have bought it immediately. Highly recommend.

This book gets you from the start

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Love the film but the book is so so much better with much more detail

brilliant

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