Out of the Box: The Highs and Lows of a Champion Smuggler - Couverture souple

McSorley, Julie; McSorley, Marcus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1938901320 ISBN 13 : 9781938901324

Editeur : Roaring Forties Press, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Reg Spiers arrived in England in 1964 as a world-class athlete. He returned to Australia in a box, but that was only the start of his adventures. Crazily impulsive, romantic, and free-spirited, Reg became a national hero for smuggling himself 13,000 miles home as air freight. But as his fame and sporting career faded, Reg decided to smuggle something very different. Soon, he was on the run with his girlfriend, playing a cat-and-mouse game with police on three continents. A wild road trip across India and Africa--idyllic beaches and prison hellholes, shady friends and shadier cops, gun-toting militias and drug-running gangsters --led to a court room in Sri Lanka and the fight of his life. Could Reg beat the death sentence he'd just been given, or was this box too big to climb out of?

Revue de presse

"Papillion, Shawshank, Catch Me If You Can, Midnight Express, Ronnie Biggs and Howard Marks all rolled up in one." --Arthur McKenzie, champion athlete, former policeman, and current TV writer and producer

"Surely one of the most colorful stories to emerge from the sporting world, one that deserves to be told."-- --Lynn Davies, president of UK Athletics

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Roaring Forties Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1938901320
• ISBN 13: 9781938901324
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible