Wild Escape - by Chelsia Rose Marcius (Paperback)

About the Book

True crime from a decorated NY journalist digging into a famous prison break by two murderers from the largest maximum security prison in New York. The subsequent manhunt, which riveted media viewers nationwide, left one fugitive dead, the other wounded and recaptured, and uncovered the peculiar relationship they'd had with the prison seamstress who helped them. Ben Stiller is planning a limited series on Showtime about this prison break.

Book Synopsis

True crime from a decorated NY journalist digging into a famous prison break by two murderers from the largest maximum security prison in New York. The subsequent manhunt, which riveted media viewers nationwide, left one fugitive dead, the other wounded and recaptured, and uncovered the peculiar relationship they'd had with the prison seamstress who helped them. Ben Stiller is planning a limited series on Showtime about this prison break.

Review Quotes

"Wild Escape is [a] remarkable feat of reporting and storytelling. An instant classic." --Matthew Lysiak, author of Newtown: An American Tragedy

"The details Marcius has amassed are comprehensive and stunning and serve to heighten the impact of her story. This is first-rate journalism, written about a crime and a criminal from the inside out." --Stephen Singular, New York Times bestselling author

"With her exhaustive reporting and extensive interviews with the surviving escapee, Chelsia Rose Marcius is able to construct a riveting, never-before read timeline of the events surrounding the prison break. Wild Escape is one of the best written, most compelling true-crime books of 2018!" --Shanna Hogan, New York Times bestselling author

"Marcius writes with genuine narrative power. Her depth of research provides insights into this historical escape that we can't get anywhere else " --Anthony Flacco, New York Times and international bestselling author