Six Against the Rock
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- Synopsis
- For twenty-nine years Alcatraz was the Rock, the prison of prisons, the end of the line for outlaws like Machine Gun Kelly, the Birdman, Doc Barker, and others with fewer headlines but even more crimes to their names. But of all the desperate men brought there in chains, only one--a soft-spoken Kentucky hillbilly named Bernie Coy--noticed the weakness, the flaw, the one tiny fissure in the Rock. A longtime veteran of the American penal system, Coy watched and waited one more year while a fellow inmate ground out a tool to his specifications in the prison's metal shop. It was a simple tool, a short metal tube with a nut and bolt, but it was all Coy needed to widen that tiny gap enough to do what prisoners and guard's agreed could never be done: With five other men serving a total of 283 years plus three life sentences, Coy seized the main cellhouse of Alcatraz. For forty- one hours they waged a bloody battle against prison guards and police, the Army and Navy, the Coast Guard, and two assault companies of battle-hardened Marines. Six Against the Rock is the complete, uncensored story of the most incredible jailbreak in American penal history, much of it never before revealed. It is a story of suspense and cold-blooded murder. It is the story of a cover-up that has kept the facts about the jailbreak and its aftermath hidden for twenty-five years. More than any other book in recent memory it tells the story of what really goes on inside American prisons --on both sides of the bars. But finally it is a story of six desperate men who defied the system, hoped against hope, attempted the impossible--and almost won.
- Copyright:
- 1977
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 356 Pages
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 06/18/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Clark Howard
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- book lover
- Proofread By:
- Jim Baugh
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.