# Escape

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- Book: [Escape](https://www.bookquiver.com/ros-schwartz/escape) ([Escape.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ros-schwartz/escape.md))
- Authors: [Ros Schwartz](https://www.bookquiver.com/ros-schwartz), [Dominique Manotti](https://www.bookquiver.com/dominique-manotti)
- Publisher: arcadia_parent_imprint
- ISBN: 978-19-0980-755-6
- Published: 2014-07-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

It's 1987. Two prisoners, both Italian, break out of prison in a rubbish lorry. One heads for Paris, the other to Milan. The first Carlo, is killed in a shoot-out during a bank robbery - under suspicious circumstances. Frightened by the manhunt launched by Interpol, the second prisoner, Filippo, returns to Paris where he becomes a security guard. He spends his nights writing the story of a Red Brigadier, as recounted to him in prison by Carlo. His landlady Cristina finds him a publisher and the book becomes a bestseller. Filippo, carefully coached by his publishers press office, steadfastly refuses to own the story, insisting that all his stories are fiction and that this is a work of imagination. The public don t buy it, neither do the police, and dogged investigations begin to produce the reasons why. Ultimately Filippo cannot escape his fate: that of a man with an assumed identity that carries far greater risks than his own.