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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Life or Death
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'Why would a man escape from prison the day before he's due to be released? Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of his gang. Five million dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that Audie knows where the money is. For ten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and threatened almost daily by fellow inmates and prison guards, who all want to answer this same question, but suddenly Audie vanishes, the day before he's due to be released. Everybody wants to find Audie, but he's not running. Instead he's trying to save a life ...and not just his own.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Isabella
  • Epigraph: Life can be magnificent and overwhelming - That is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to life. –Albert Camus

    To be, or not to be: that is the question. –William Shakespeare

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Australia , 2014 .
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      Extent: 434p.
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      • Published 7 August 2014
      ISBN: 9780751552904
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
      :
      Mulholland Books ,
      2015 .
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      Extent: 418p.
      Note/s:
      • Published March 10, 2015
      ISBN: 9780316252058

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