Escape may refer to:

• Escape (hold), a maneuver used to exit a wrestling or grappling hold
• Escapism, mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation
• Escapology, the study and practice of escaping from physical restraints
• Prison escape, the act of breaking out of prison

In literature:

• ESCAPE, an autobiographical book by David McMillan
• Escape (Choose Your Own Adventure), a Choose Your Own Adventure book
• Escape (book), about a woman leaving the FLDS religion.
• Escape Magazine, a British comic strip magazine published between 1983 and 1989

In radio, film and television:

• Escape (1930 film), featuring Gerald du Maurier and Edna Best
• Escape (1940 film), starring Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer
• Escape (1948 film), a remake of the 1940 film, with Rex Harrison and Peggy Cummins
• Escape, the video title of the 1970 film The McKenzie Break
• Escape (1971 film), a made-for-television movie
• Escape (1987 film), BBC film starring Edita Brychta
• Escape (2006 film), starring Ethan Embry
• Escape (radio program), a radio drama series on CBS, a highly-regarded companion to the network's longer-running Suspense anthology series
• Escape (XM), a music channel on XM Satellite Radio

In computers:

• Escape key, the Esc key on a computer keyboard
• Escape sequence, a series of characters used to trigger some sort of command state in computers
• Escape character, a single character which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation
• escape(), a JavaScript function to percent-encode a string (though encodeURIComponent() and encodeURI() are preferable)

In music:

• Escape (Journey album), a 1981 album by Journey
• Escape, a Journey tribute band
• "Escape" (Rupert Holmes song), a 1979 hit for Rupert Holmes, later known as "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
• Escape (Whodini album), a 1984 album by Whodini
• Escape (Enrique Iglesias album), a 2001 album by Enrique Iglesias
• "Escape" (Enrique Iglesias song), a single by Enrique Iglesias
• Escape (Ram-Zet album), a 2002 album by Ram-Zet
• "Escape", a song from Metallica's 1984 album Ride the Lightning
• "Escape", a song by Hoobastank from their album The Reason
• "Escape", a song by Muse from their first album Showbiz and first EP Muse
• "Escape" (Craig Armstrong song), a 1999 song by Craig Armstrong
• Ska-P, a Spanish ska punk group
• Escape, a 2007 album by Brandy
• Escaping, a 1989 single by Margaret Urlich

Other:

• Ford Escape, a small Sport Utility Vehicle
• Escape (cologne), a scented cologne made by Calvin Klein
• Escape, Inc., a subsidiary of Japanese game developer Square responsible for Driving Emotion Type-S
• Escape (later renamed Westone), a Japanese game developer responsible for Wonder Boy

Career smuggler David McMillan is arrested in Bangkok’s Chinatown and soon finds himself with other Western inmates among over 6,000 Thai locals in Klong Prem prison on remand for charges linked to an abandoned 200 grams of heroin at the city’s airport. In his narrative, McMillan speaks of the over 180 Europeans and other foreigners from almost every country who expect, and eventually get, sentences of death or between 25 and 50 years in prison. The stories of these failed smugglers amount to half of the book for little time is spent recounting the usual clichés of the horrors of Asian prisons.

The balance of the book is taken with the countless plans for the author’s escape, most abandoned as too dangerous or comical but several dropped as many of McMillan’s cellmates withdraw from the schemes as the grisly fates of those who fail are revealed. The style of Escape is closer to that of a novel than a diary or memoir. Although most of the events were reported at the time (in the late 1990s) McMillan has remarked on a Thai blog interview with Richard Barrow that he wrote Escape in this style, ‘so that each reader may come to know things as I did, suddenly and often mysteriously’. Although he was never caught, several people thought to be McMillan have been mistakenly arrested while passing through Bangkok airport, and it is known that he was briefly held in a Karachi jail some years later following another arrest. This, and other events that followed the escape, are reported by Andrew Drummond in the Thai daily referenced below and later in the London Evening Standard, and include references to the 1982 helicopter escape attempt with which McMillan was charged and later stood trial. Escape is fast-paced with many intriguing characters and McMillan makes no excuses for himself as he uses everything and everyone to gain his freedom while giving much insight into the smuggler’s life. The edition of 2008 includes sketches by the author of material said to be used in the escape, and a photograph of McMillan.

External links

Interview with Richard Barrow on Thai blogs.

The One Who Got Away by Andrew Drummond in The Nation.

Editions

Paperback: 320 pages Royal Octavo Publisher: Mainstream Publishing (3 Jul 2008) Random House Amazon listing Language English Illustrations ISBN-10: 1845963458 ISBN-13: 978-1845963453

ISBN 9789810575687

Pub Date: May 2007 Paperback (B format) 288pp Monsoon Books Pte Ltd 52 Telok Blangah Road Telok Blangah House Singapore 098829

See also

Helicopter prison escapes

• Smuggling in literature