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Escape
Dominique Manotti
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Description for Escape
Paperback. Translator(s): Schwartz, Ros; Hopkinson, Amanda. Num Pages: 161 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 198.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Arcadia Books United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
161
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909807556
SKU
V9781909807556
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Ref
99-50
About Dominique Manotti
Dominique Manotti is a professor of 19th-century economic history in Paris. She is also the author of several novels including Rough Trade, Dead Horsemeat (short-listed for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award), Lorraine Connection (which won the International Dagger Award and was nominated for the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards), and Affairs of State.
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