Billy Hayes

Midnight Return picks up where Midnight Express left off. Billy Hayes leapt from prison isolation to international notoriety when the book about his 5 years in and escape from a Turkish prison became a worldwide bestseller, and an Academy Award-winning film. Midnight Return chronicles his struggles and triumphs in that transition, tracing Billys journey from desperation to freedom, and even true love. It revisits his daring escape in more detail, and weaves in the harrowing story of his friend who remained behind and Billys efforts to help free him. We take the ride with Billy as he sometimes stumbles along a path toward healing, self-knowledge, and a new life incorporating his hardest won lessons--to a place where he can say that being arrested and sentenced to life in prison was both the worst and the best thing that ever happened to him.

The Midnight Express Letters is a compelling collection of letters that Billy Hayes wrote to his family, girlfriend, and friends during his years in a Turkish prison. Here is the raw source material from which Midnight Express--the worldwide best-selling book and Academy Award-winning film--is drawn. Together with annotation, photos, and images of the handwritten pages, these letters tell Billys story of both the events and the inner journey, in his original words, with the urgency and intimacy of the moment.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, Billy took matters into his own hands and pulled off a daring escape to freedom. Soon after, he wrote Midnight Express.

Midnight Express tells the gut-wrenching true story of a young mans incarceration and escape from a Turkish prison. A classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humor, honesty, and heart, it became 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 Hayess own words, of those five years of living hell and of the harrowing ordeal of his time on the run."Some books open doors, and some books become the doors through which we pass into other, stranger worlds of experience and understanding. Midnight Express, by Billy Hayes, is such a book: a door that opens into love and fear, courage and sorrow so profound that the experience of it is quite simply unforgettable."Gregory David Roberts, Author of Shantaram

Continues to chronicle Billy Hayess life after his book about his 1975 escape from Turkish prison, where hed been given a life sentence for attempting to smuggle two kilos of hashish, became a worldwide bestseller and an Academy Award-winning film. Hayes shares his journey of self-discovery as an actor and director, a husband, a son of aging parents, and of his rapprochement with the Turkish people when he fulfills a longtime dream and returns to Istanbul. Going back to Turkey--as a guest of the Turkish National Police no less!--is both a frightening and fulfilling experience, as he revisits his former prison and the now abandoned madhouse he had tried to escape from in 1972. Hayes provides a window into the birth of his one man show, Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes, where hes finally able to tell his real story in his own words, in his favorite medium--theater--in New York City, London, Edinburgh, and beyond. When the documentary that followed his momentous journey back to Istanbul, Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey, screens at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Billy and Wendy return to close a circle of love that began 38 years before when they first met there at the films world premiere. Includes photos.

Le témoignage glaçant de Billy Hayes, qui livre son expérience de lenfer dune prison turque où il a été incarcéré. Une histoire de survie et dendurance, adaptée au cinéma par Alan Parker et Oliver St

Una historia real de suspense y terror sobre el increíble coraje de un hombre en su lucha por sobrevivir.En el aeropuerto deYesilkoy, en Estambul, Billy Hayes es detenido por tráfico de droga. A partir de ese momento, comienza para el una experiencia larga y aterradora en las carceles turcas; una serie de horrores, tormentos y oscuridad que duraran mas años de lo que cualquier persona es capaz de soportar y que esta novela -contada por el propio protagonista de los hechos- relata con un suspense sobrecogedor.Expreso demedianoche se convirtio enbestseller en Europa y Estados Unidos y dio lugar, en 1978, a la estupenda pelicula homonima dirigida por Alan Parker, con guion de Oliver Stone y protagonizada por Brad Davis.

Una historia real de suspense y terror sobre el increíble coraje de un hombre en su lucha por sobrevivir. En el aeropuerto de Yesilkoy, en Estambul, Billy Hayes es detenido por tráfico de droga. A partir de ese momento, comienza para el una experiencia larga y aterradora en las carceles turcas; una serie de horrores, tormentos y oscuridad que duraran mas años de lo que cualquier persona es capaz de soportar y que esta novela -contada por el propio protagonista de los hechos- relata con un suspense sobrecogedor. Expreso demedianoche se convirtio en best seller en Europa y Estados Unidos y dio lugar, en 1978, a la estupenda pelicula homonima dirigida por Alan Parker, con guion de Oliver Stone y protagonizada por Brad Davis.