Escape (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781909807556)

It's 1987. Two prisoners, both Italian, break out of prison in a rubbish lorry. One heads for Paris, the other to Milan. The first Carlo, is killed in a shoot-out during a bank robbery - under suspicious circumstances. Frightened by the manhunt launched by Interpol, the second prisoner, Filippo, returns to Paris where he becomes a security guard. He spends his nights writing the story of a Red Brigadier, as recounted to him in prison by Carlo. His landlady Cristina finds him a publisher and the book becomes a bestseller. Filippo, carefully coached by his publishers press office, steadfastly refuses to own the story, insisting that all his stories are fiction and that this is a work of imagination. The public don t buy it, neither do the police, and dogged investigations begin to produce the reasons why. Ultimately Filippo cannot escape his fate: that of a man with an assumed identity that carries far greater risks than his own.

Author: Dominique Manotti
ISBN-10: 1909807559
ISBN-13: 9781909807556
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2014
Pages: 161
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.60d