Six Against The Rock * True Account Of The Most Ingenious Escape Attempt - Alcatraz

I HIGHLY recommend anyone reading this book. I read it when I was a teenager and never forgot it. I ordered another one to read again and I just love it. Full of action.

I bought this book after I went to visit alcatraz. This is a fabulous book that you will not soon forget!!!

Great book!A combination of facts and novelization. Very good insight into the minds of the escapee's and the prison gaurds that went through the ordeal.I visited Alcatraz shortly after its opening as a tourist attraction and this book brought back all of the memories I have of that experience. The details of the prison and its environment are greatly put into words. Read this book and you will plan a vacation trip to "THE ROCK"In my opinion this attempt to crashout of Alcatraz far outweighs in drama the attempt depicted in the movie by Clint Eastwood, "Escape from Alcatraz".Read the book, you'll love it !

As I read this book, I, without acknowledgment, became a prisoner. Lost in worlds, too many times dismissed; of tragedy, in hopelessness and exasperation struggling for my central stability. Longing for an insight which only comes from confinement. To believe a government's (ours) coup could insistantly(to this day) project such a non-chalant attitude towards out-right dehumanizing treatment, is absurd, and can only come from... well.. our government. No, I am not an adversary of American government just a skeptic of it's "Agenda." (Just like our population) We are people and so are convicts. What is incarceration other than devices?

Howard examines the ingenious but failed escape designed by Bernie Coy to break out of the fortress known as Alcatraz. Howard's research examines the mind of a man determined to gain his life back and accomplish the impossible in escaping from the harshest prison in US history