Breakfast with the Devil

by Wayne Carlson, L. Wayne Carlson

In 1960, 18-year-old Wayne Carlson was convicted for stealing cars, and spent his twenties and thirties in penetentiaries and prisons across Canada and the U.S. But Carlson was no ordinary inmate - what set him apart was his penchant for escaping from captivity. From Saskatchewan to Vermont, Carlson broke out of jail 13 times, making him the most-escaped prisoner in modern North American history. More than just a skillful escape artist, ever since gaining his freedom in 1998, Carlson has become one of Canada's most respected activists for prison reform. He is a member of the Samaritans of Southern Alberta and a founding member of The Prison Sams Program, a group that brings attention to the correlation between prison and suicide. Breakfast with the Devil is both a wild ride with an outlaw and a firsthand look at life behind bars in some of North America's maximum security prisons. But above all else, Carlson's memoir is an amazing tale of one man, driven by his desire for freedom, reaching beyond the realm of the possible. They didn't call him "Houdini" for nothing.

308 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2001

Reviews

[Aaron Fiddler · Rating 5 out of 5]

I remember being given this book from my pops in a time i could have given to shits about reading anything gr10 what a year this book stayed in my locker tell I got given my first detention the first time I opened this book by the end of the year and a shit tone of staying after school I finished my fist book I ever felt like trying to get though I was a slow ass reader Bak then

[Danni The Girl · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF 40%