The much-anticipated prequel to international bestseller "Escape." The only Westerner ever to escape from Thailand's notorious Bangkok Hilton, drug smuggler David McMillan tells his story from the beginning in "The Edge, " the gripping prequel to the international bestseller "Escape." A millionaire by twenty-one, McMillan smuggles two tonnes of marijuana from northern Thailand by Learjet, befriends drug-dealing pimps in fishbowl brothels in Bangkok, rigs cockfights in Manila with a disgraced British peer and transports liquid heroin in a glass statue. But success comes at a heavy cost. While this true surviver serves prison time in half a dozen countries on four continents, the true price of his exploits is paid by everyone he holds dear.