William Hoffer

Billy Hayes

Midnight Express tells the gut-wrenching true story of a young man's incarceration and escape from a Turkish prison. A classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humor, honesty, and heart, it became a worldwide best-seller and the Academy Award-winning blockbuster film of the same name. In 1970 Billy Hayes was an English major who left college in search of adventures to write about, like his hero Jack London. He had a rude awakening when he was arrested at the airport in Istanbul trying to board a plane while carrying four pounds of hashish, and given a life sentence. After five brutal years, relentless efforts by his family to gain his release, and endless escape plotting, Hayes finally took matters into his own hands. On a dark night, in a wailing storm he began a desperate and daring escape to freedom... This is the astounding journey, told in Billy Hayes's own words, of those five years of living hell and of the harrowing ordeal of his time on the run.

Midnight Express

Betty Mahmoody

Emanuela Stifter-Buza

Numai cu fiica mea

3 août 1984... Dans l'avion qui l'emmène à Téhéran avec son mari, d'origine iranienne, et sa fille, pour quinze jours de vacances, Betty a le sentiment d'avoir commis une erreur irréparable... Quelques jours plus tard, son existence bascule dans le cauchemar. Le verdict tombe : "Tu ne quitteras jamais l'Iran ! Tu y resteras jusqu'à ta mort." En proie au pouvoir insondable du fanatisme religieux, son mari se transforme en geôlier. Elle n'a désormais qu'un objectif : rentrer chez elle, aux Etats-Unis, avec sa fille. Quitter ce pays déchiré par la guerre et les outrances archaïques : ce monde incohérent où la femme n'existe pas. Pour reconquérir sa liberté, Betty mènera deux ans de lutte incessante. Humiliations, séquestration, chantage, violences physiques et morales. Rien ne lui sera épargné.

Jamais sans ma fille

Myra MacFarlane

Cobblestone Press

Thin Girls Have Electric Backbones for Love

For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home in America. It was the year when he was arrested at Istanbul airport, tried, and sentenced to 30 years in a Turkish jail. For five years he suffered the filth, brutality and degradation of imprisonment in an environment of hellish squalor, while his family fought in vain to secure his release. Finally in desperation, he made a daring escape bid and incredibly the bid succeeded. This is the astounding true story, told in Billy Hayes's own words, of those five years of living hell and of the harrowing ordeal of his time on the run. Vivid and realistic without being morbid, it is a classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humour, intelligence and total honesty.

Patsy Heymans

Marilyn Mona Hoffer

Recounts the true story of a mother's six-and-a-half year effort to rescue her children from their father, an Israeli extremist who kidnapped them

The True Story of a Mother's Desperate Search for Her Stolen Children

Torn from My Heart

Bez dcéry neodídem

Nicht ohne meine Tochter

Morton Downey

The controversial talk show host talks about his personal life and shares his views on drugs, abortion, crime prevention, education, welfare, taxes, religion, feminists, and the MIAs

No Place to Hide

Mort! Mort! Mort!

Dennis Levine

The author discloses how the whirl of greed sucked him into an insider trading scandal and how his arrest changed his life and the face of Wall Street

William Hoffer

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