Escape from Alcatraz: The True Crime Classic

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With the author providing all of these literary elements, the reader is able to picture this story well and it grabs your attention instantly which makes this book very good. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. For example, they used raincoats to construct life preservers, and utensils from the cafeteria to dig away at the cell.

For Alcatraz fanatics like me, Escape from Alcatraz is an amazing book that provides lots of information about the iconic escape of Frank Lee Morris and the Anglin brothers. The chapters describing the daring escape attempts by Frank Morris and two accomplices from this “inescapable” prison became the basis for the 1979 Clint Eastwood movie. He's an ex-FBI agent who's been fired for insubordination but is lured back to the Bureau to work a case that has become more unsolvable - and more deadly - by the hour.In August 1942, after escaping from San Quentin, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to forty-five years in prison, and later transferred to Alcatraz. Surrounded by the most notorious, dangerous and unpredictable inmates, you will quickly learn that the only means of escape will be from solving hidden puzzles using the code wheel left behind by the renowned criminal mastermind Robert Stroud – the famous Birdman of Alcatraz.

She is co-artistic director of interactive, digital arts organization Produced Moon, with whom she has created a range of immersive and interactive experiences, including escape rooms and app-based audio adventures. Our fourth issue of "Escape from Alcatraz" features the daring escape attempt of Alcatraz inmates John Paul Scott, and Darl Dee Parker. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of the shipwreck and a harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than thirty stranded sailors. It covers all the intricacies of their plan for escape and everything authorities have done since to try to close the case.It was easy for me to follow (paired with a faint familiarity from the movie I watched several decades ago) and was a nice "change of pace" from the longer books I am constantly listening to.