The 4th Prisoner by Brandon Hughes
The 4th Prisoner by Brandon Hughes (Barclay Griffith #2)
English | 2023 | Mystery & Thriller
Step back to a fateful June night in 1962, when the notorious Alcatraz prison became the stage for the most daring escape attempt in American history. Frank Lee Morris, along with brothers John and Clarence Anglin, defied the odds, fleeing the island’s clutches under the cloak of darkness, only to seemingly vanish beneath the treacherous tides of San Francisco Bay. Yet, beneath the surface of their infamous escape lies a buried truth waiting to be unearthed.
Beyond the limelight of the infamous trio, there was another—a fourth prisoner—who somehow slipped through the cracks of history and eluded the gaze of time itself. Like the others, his fate, too, remains unknown. Or does it?
Meet Eddie Howard, the enigmatic fourth prisoner whose untold story could be the elusive puzzle piece that binds the past to a perplexing present-day mystery.
November 23, 1963, ushered in a shroud of darkness over Towne, Alabama, as an eruption of rage and brutality forever altered its destiny. Armed with determination, evil swept through the Chatham household, leaving but one survivor to bear witness to the unfathomable slaughter. The gruesome massacre scarred the town’s soul—the case a mystery left to gather dust, unsolved and haunting.
