Inside Out - Les Newcombe

On 9 October 1959 Kevin Simmonds and Les Newcombe broke out of Long Bay Gaol. In so doing they set in train one of the most incredible manhunts in Australian history

- a media event which aroused public feeling to fever pitch, The death of a prison warder, the dogged determination of police and the often ingenious desperation of the escapees abruptly focused public attention, not just on the running men but also on the prison system from which they had sprung - its brutality, its systematic denial of hope and humanity.

In this frank and hard-hitting book Les Newcombe tells his story: a story of life in prison and out of it, as free man, prisoner and escapee.