Midnight Express
Language: English
Published by Andre Deutsch Limited, 1977
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used





Seller: Quinto Bookshop, London, United KingdomQuinto Bookshop
AbeBooks seller since February 28, 2020
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 160.00
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First UK edition.238pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Slight bumping to tail of spine. Light spotting to exterior of text block and endpapers. Small biro mark at top right corner of ffe. Price-clipped jacket a little toned and rubbed; minor sunning to spine and with just a few light spots to flaps. *** "The hair-raising story of a young man's escape from a Turkish prison." Published a few months after the US edition, but much scarcer. Adapted into the film of the same name in 1978.
Seller Inventory # 901810
- Title
- Midnight Express
- Author
- Hayes, Billy; Hoffer, William (with)
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch Limited
- Publication year
- 1977
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0233969470
- ISBN 13
- 9780233969473
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Drugs & Counterculture, Film & Performing arts
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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