Escape‪!‬

Three stories of men in horrible conditions, condemned to death or worse, and their attempts to escape to freedom. French Guiana was one of the most horrible places in the world and so it became a dumping ground for French convicts. Even if they weren’t condemned to death, they might as well have been. Escape and a return to freedom were all these men had to live for. Even if “freedom” was the freedom of death.

Jungle (1928)
A Novelette of a Remarkable Escape from the French Penal Camp in Darkest Guiana
A four chapter novelette.

Escape (1929)
Do you remember “Jungle“? Here is an even more powerful story of that dire place of forgotten men, the French Penal Colony of Guiana

The Web (1932)
Betrayed by his liberators, James, an escaped convict from the hell of a Guiana prison, finds a strange ally in an American reporter. A grim novel of an ex-convict who beat Guiana.
Chapter I. – A Voice From The Past.
Chapter II. – Told In The Hello Sailor.
Chapter III. – The Snake Ring.
Chapter IV. – Martin’s Story.
Chapter V. – Action.
Chapter VI. – Turned Down.
Chapter VII. – Trapped.
Chapter VIII. – Two Victories.

Robert Carse (1902-1971) was first published around 1928 and most frequently published in Argosy Weekly and The Saturday Evening Post. He was a prolific writer of French Foreign Legion stories as well as swashbuckling pirate stories.

Escape! has 15 illustrations.