The Edge

by David McMillan

The only Westerner ever to escape from Thailand’s notorious Bangkok Hilton, drug smuggler David McMillan tells his story from the beginning in The Edge , the gripping prequel to the international bestseller Escape .A millionaire by twenty-one, McMillan smuggles two tonnes of marijuana from northern Thailand by Learjet, befriends drug-dealing pimps in fishbowl brothels in Bangkok, rigs cockfights in Manila with a disgraced British peer and transports liquid heroin in a glass statue.But success comes at a heavy cost. While this true survivor serves prison time in half a dozen countries on four continents, the true price of his exploits is paid by everyone he holds dear.

Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2013