Oh, and thanks Joe for letting me hog the spotlight in TKZ today. Then an angel materialized, freed Peter of his bound and led him the way out, walking through walls, no less.ĭo you agree with my list? I can expand it to a Top-Ten list, so do send me your suggestions. Peter was not only left in the deepest meanest cell with two guards by his side, he was also bound by chains. This divine intervention, the epitome of Deus ex machina, can be found in Acts 12: 1-11. However, at this point I better come clean and say there was no pun intended when this escape artist landed on number two.īefore people start emailing me that this book is not a work of fiction, but a true account, I admit that I agree, but Peter’s escape is so awesome I had to include it! The final leg of his trip out of Shawshank prison was through a sewerage pipe, as he crawled amidst the worst of human’s excrement. Not too bad considering he went through two small rock hammer, and many lovely girl posters, in the process. It took Andy Dufrasne all of twenty seven years to dig a tunnel. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was a novella included in the collection Different Seasons. Otherwise it wouldn’t be a Stephen King story. This one is similar to number five, but with a darker twist. Then after a quick change of wardrobe he put on a face that allowed him to pass through the guards outside and end up in a low-security ambulance. Using nothing but discarded-or rather stolen-office supplies, Hannibal Lecter picked his handcuffs. Okay, the level of gruesomeness of this one may perhaps be in league with Master Stephen King’s, but the inventiveness alone is remarkable enough to snatch the number #3 position.
Prison break fan fiction movie#
A must-read which movie version grabbed the five most coveted Oscars (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Adapted Script and Best Picture). It sure does pay to be an unregistered animagi.Įven after twenty years of its publication, Thomas Harris’ Silence of the Lamb remains a fixture in any top-ten list of suspense novels. (Am I the only one who at the end of Book 2 thought that the prisoner of Azkaban was the recently released Hagrid?)Īlthough the POV is always on Harry, we learn of Sirius’ ordeal from his own retelling of the tale.Īfter being incarcerated for over thirteen years, he simply transformed into a dog and squeezed through the cell bars, not even the demon guards could detect him. And I mean it literally, for the title actually refers to him. Rowling’s third Harry Potter book, The Prisoner of Azkaban. In the world of prison breaks, no man can match the trick pulled by Sirius Black in J.K. This story is not only notorious for the great escape of Dantés when he replaces the corpse of his mentor, but after the dust settles, you begin to wonder if all those years excavating the tunnel were a waste of time because-let’s face it-he didn’t escape through the tunnel now, did he? After a few years of solitary confinement, he meets a priest and they both agree to work on a tunnel as means to their ultimate salvation. Edmund Dantés is wrongfully accused and sent to prison in the island of Château d’If. Let’s begin with a classic: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. At a later time I will make the equivalent list for movies, but for now, let’s concentrate on actions that can be found between bookends. The following list is my top five of the greatest escapes found in books. I’ve lived through bomb countdowns, assassins catching up with their marks, renegade terrorist factions on the verge of breaking hell loose on earth, among others scenarios.īut one of the more thrilling rides is when characters break out of prisons, some may even call them educational. Enjoy his list of greatest prison breaks in novels.Īs a thriller fan, the genre has rewarded me with plenty tall tales of threats that could destroy the entire world. José is a fellow ITW member and also serves as ITW’s Thriller Roundtable Coordinator and a contributing editor to The Big Thrill. Today I welcome back to TKZ, guest blogger J.H.
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