Braving armed guards, bone-chilling water, and a mythical one-finned shark named Bruce, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe take advantage of the heaviest fog on record to escape from the escape-proof prison island of Alcatraz.
The two were incorrigible criminals -- and escape artists. Roe had once broken out of an Oklahoma pen by stuffing himself into a shipping crate, and Cole had successfully used the old "laundry bag" routine in Texas. Garbage cans, hacksaws, guns carved from wood -- they'd tried them all.
That's why they ended up on the Rock .
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