It went on to sell more than 7 million copies worldwide. Today, Roberts looks more like a blissed-out holy man than either a bank robber or the bestselling author he became when Shantaram,an epic 936-page novel based on his own life, was published in 2003. “They thought no one would be crazy enough to escape over the front wall.”
“If you’re planning an escape, you look for the place that’s least protected,” explains Roberts, now 70, at home in Jamaica.
It’s an audacious, brazen escape, and at one o’clock on a July afternoon in 1980, it’s exactly how convicted bank robber Gregory David Roberts broke out of Melbourne’s Pentridge Prison. He’s over the front wall and away before the guards in the machine gun towers even turn their heads. Not for him chipping away at a dank tunnel for 17 years like Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption. In the opening moments of the new Apple Plus series Shantaram, Charlie Hunnam breaks out of prison the fast way.
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