Escape

Dominique Manotti,Ros Schwartz

Escape
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 July 2014
Pages
161
ISBN
9781909807556

Escape

Dominique Manotti,Ros Schwartz

It's1987. 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.

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