Originally published in 1981 and long out of print, Mike McQuay’s novelization of John Carpenter’s Escape from New York is a pulp thrill ride that expands upon the film’s dystopian world with material cut from the final production.It is 1997 and a nearly destroyed New York City has become a walled prison for over three million convicted criminals who have lost, but survived, a brutal war against the United States Police Force. In this maximum security pris...