"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 A gripping, true-crime debut of imprisonment,
escape, and survival from New York Daily News crime reporter
Chelsia Rose Marcius. On June 6, 2015, inmates Richard Matt and
David Sweat escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York
State's largest maximum security prison. The media was instantly
obsessed with the story: aided by a prison seamstress, who smuggled
hacksaw blades, chisels, and drill bits inside the facility via a
vat of raw hamburger meat, the two convicted murderers sliced their
way through steel cell walls, meandered through a maze of tunnels,
climbed out of a manhole, and walked off into the night. Only a
handful of inmates had successfully broken out of Clinton since the
facility opened in 1845, and not many had made the attempt. Barbed
wire, stone walls, and the wilderness of the Adirondacks have all
served as physical and psychological barriers to freedom. This
seemingly impossible Shawshank-esque escape had the makings of a
Hollywood film, and the public hung on to every twist as the story
developed. After nearly three weeks on the run, U.S. Customs and
Border Patrol agent Christopher Voss shot and killed Matt on June
26, 2015. Two days later New York State Police Sgt. Jay Cook shot
Sweat twice in the back. He survived. While we have come to learn
how Matt and Sweat pulled off perhaps the most elaborate modern day
prison break, no reporter, except Chelsia Rose Marcius, has talked
directly to Sweat to ask the most important question in the case:
Of all the inmates who dream of escape, why was he the one who
could make it happen? "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
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