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A sensational-and true-prison escape story in the tradition of Papillon and Midnight Express. Edward Padilla, an American, is the only living person ever to escape from the world's foulest prison-Lurigancho Prison in Peru. Here is the true story of his four-year ordeal and his miraculous flight to freedom. A founding member of the now notorious "hippie" church called The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Ed is one of the few surviving core members of that group, the only one to come forward with brutal honesty in the telling of this story."A wonderfully gritty story of transcendence of the physical and the spiritual. Serve time with Ed and discover hell and heaven. Unique and extraordinary."Jeremy Tarcherpublisher, Tarcher Books and Seven Years in Tibet"A harrowing account of one of the most infamous hell-holes on earth, and a thrilling tale of betrayed ideals, adventure, escape and redemption."Nicholas Schouauthor of Kill the Messenger, Orange Sunshine, and The Weed Runners (forthcoming)"An astonishing true story that has every twist and turn you could imagine. Eddie's is a story that plunges to the bleakest depths and soars to the greatest heights. Guns, drugs, girls, South American hell-holes-it has it all...."Nick Greendirector of the National Geographic documentary "The Hippie Mafia""Edward Padilla's gritty street prose takes the reader into a desperate Heart of Darkness from which not many could ever emerge. But this gripping narrative turns emergence into a transcendent awakening and genuine rebirth. This is the real stuff, no modifiers required."John Kent Harrisonscreenwriter/director"Eddie Padilla embodies so much of the promise and peril of post-War Southern California that it makes your head spin: a multiracial child of the New West; schooled by surfers, street fighters, and smugglers; turned on as a '60s seeker; turned out as a '70s nihilist. In Lurigancho Prison, Peru, a Dante-esque catalog of horrors, Padilla paid for California's broken dreams as much as his own. His brave escape and ongoing recovery offer a dagger of redemption and hope in the fight against 21st century cynicism and apathy."Joe Donnellyco-editor/founder Slake: Los Angeles, author of "The Pirate of Penance"

Four Wheels Five Corners: Facts of Life in Upcountry MauiPaul WoodSecond editionwith new artwork, maps, and textMaui's "Upcountry" region has no precise boundaries and very little connection to the cute ideas you read in tourism publications. But anyone interested in Maui, or in the contemporary Hawaiian Islands, or in the abundant comedy of barely civilized human nature, will find surprises and delight in these playful short tales and observations.During the1990s, award-winning writer Paul Wood undertook a series of newspaper pieces trying to get at the true experience of his home terrain. He quickly realized that "Upcountry" is partly a state of mind, so he was forced to include tall tales and truthful distortions. As an inspiration for the design of his pieces, he chose the flimsy hairpin roads that noodle through the gulch country of windward Haleakala-bad roads in beautiful places. The new driver (driving a truck, one hopes) tends to panic ("where is this all going?") and in the end arrives safely to wonder what just happened. Hence the series title, which refers to one of the dankest and most bewildering intersections in Hawai'i.Throughout it all, Wood repeatedly calls for a sense of community-a community of strangers, refugees, cowboys, mechanics, shopkeepers, realtors, scratch farmers, massage therapists, entrepreneurs, people who have real jobs, dreamers and floaters and rough-hands. All they have in common is the shared landscape, along with a vision of the native Hawaiian culture that precedes them.Wood produced the book first in the mid '90s, a print-run of 1,000 copies, all but three of which were sold within the first two months. Here is a new edition. During the intervening years, the island and its culture have changed dramatically. New footnotes were needed, and those become a running joke-"the good old days." But which "good old days?" Reality becomes history as soon as you live it. The tropics are volatile. Upcountry is going down. Grab a copy on the way.