Midnight Express.

HAYES, Billy with William Hoffer. [Oliver Stone].

$975.00

Item Number: 140323

New York: Thomas Congdon Books/E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1977.

First edition of Hayes’ classic true story of survival and escape. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone on the title page. Stone adapted the memoir into a screenplay for the 1978 film adaptation for which he won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alfred Manso.

Midnight Express vividly recounts Billy Hayes' experience as a young American who was sent to a Turkish prison. The US had declared a "War on Drugs" in the early 1970s, and Hayes was made an example of for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey. When his sentence was extended to 30 years, he decided to make his escape and began devising an ingenious escape plan. The memoir was adapted by Oliver Stone and directed by Alan Parker into a 1978 feature film of the same name which won Stone the 1979 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.