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    : Press - EFNY Novel Facts (Special Thanks to Joe Thornton)

Publisher: Bantam Spectra, Bastei Lubbe etc
Writer: Mike McQuay
Original Release Date: Sep 1981, Nov 1985
Pages: 181
Back Description: 1997: In an America ravaged by war and gutted by riots and social collapse, "Snake" Plissken was the deadliest man alive. Ex-soldier, Ex-hero, Outlaw, Snake was so slippery no trap could catch him, no jail could hold him. Then he was set up, betrayed captured.
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Extra: An interview with Mike McQuay, the novelist


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Written by Mike McQuay as a movie tie-in novel, the book adopts a lean, humorous style reminiscent of the film. The novel is significant in that it includes scenes that were cut out of the film, like the Federal Reserve Despository robbery that results in Snake's incarceration. The novel also provides motivation and backstory to both Snake and Hauk -- both disillusioned war veterans -- deepening their relationship that was only hinted at it in the final film. The novel explains how Snake lost his eye during the Battle for Leningrad in World War III and how Hauk became warden of New York and of his quest to find his crazy son who lives somewhere in the prison.

The novel also fleshes out the world that these characters exist in, at times presenting a future even bleaker than the one depicted in the movie. The west coast is a no-man's land and the country's population is gradually being driven crazy by nerve gas as a result of World War III.