Midnight ExpressFor 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

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was not the kind of man who could hold down one of the toughest towns in the West

once one of the most powerful men in the village

Filled with photographs

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When obsessive book-lover (ahem

true to a style that has endeared him to a legion of admirers

An Ordinary Persons Guide To Empire

this collection is a treasure trove of literary gems that will leave you spellbound and longing for more

is intrigued by the possibility that it is a Viking corpse

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