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

McSorley, Julie; McSorley, Marcus

 
9781938901324: Out of the Box: The Highs and Lows of a Champion Smuggler
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1938901320 ISBN 13 : 9781938901324
Editeur : Roaring Forties Press, 2014

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

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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
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Personne responsable
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