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Six Against the Rock
Six Against the Rock Clark, Howard
432 pages, Hardcover
First published December 12, 1975
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October 1, 2012
Read this when I was 12. Fascinated by Alcatraz ever since.
January 16, 2009
one of the first timeline based books I read for fun in middle school. got me hooked on thieves books and timelines
October 29, 2015
A look at the most spectacular (if unsuccessful) breakout attempt ever at Alcatraz Prison. We see things from the would-be escaper' POV, as well as that of the guards, other prisoners, outsiders and others.
It's not brought up, but in later years the youngest of the would-be escapers became a friend of Whitey Bulger, and Bulger paid for him to have a proper funeral.
The escape itself ingeniously exploited a never-before-seen weak point, but even if the escapers had managed to put their plan completely into action, it still would have failed badly. Grabbing guards and demanding a boat was an unlikely gambit to work (prison guards are considered expendable; one reason the pay is not good) and even if they got a boat, they'd be out on the middle of San Francisco bay, a big, fat sitting duck, and easily tracked to where ever they made landfall.
It's not brought up, but in later years the youngest of the would-be escapers became a friend of Whitey Bulger, and Bulger paid for him to have a proper funeral.
The escape itself ingeniously exploited a never-before-seen weak point, but even if the escapers had managed to put their plan completely into action, it still would have failed badly. Grabbing guards and demanding a boat was an unlikely gambit to work (prison guards are considered expendable; one reason the pay is not good) and even if they got a boat, they'd be out on the middle of San Francisco bay, a big, fat sitting duck, and easily tracked to where ever they made landfall.
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