Escape From New York

Mike McQuay

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.


In 1997, crime has become so severe that the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum-security prison. Surrounded by massive walls and heavily guarded, prisoners are dumped inside with no guards patrolling the streets and are left to form their own violent society. When Air Force One crashes inside the prison, former Special Forces soldier and convicted criminal Snake Plissken is sent in to rescue the President before time runs out.

Originally published in 1981 and long out of print, Mike McQuay’s novelization expands the world from John Carpenter and Nick Castle’s original screenplay, with added scenes and the same grit that made Snake Plissken a legend.

Release formats: Trade Paperback, Mass Market Paperback (website exclusive), Jacketed Hardcover, eBook and Audiobook (coming soon from Blackstone Library)

Michael Dennis McQuay was an American science fiction writer. His series include Mathew Swain, Ramon and Morgan, Executioner, and SuperBolan. The Book of Justice series he wrote as Jack Arnett. He also wrote the second of the Isaac Asimov’s Robot City novels. His non-series novel Memories was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award in 1987