For my brothers Michael Alastair and Andrew Bland my partners in crime growing up in San Francisco E B S For Wonderful Rio J E I would like to thank the following people for helping me with the research Shelagh Fritz Michael Esslinger Corrina Gould Gerry Wright and Adrian Baker E B S
The boat chugged out of San Francisco and into the bay Sound nice It wasn’t This was no pleasure outing let me tell you Gulls squawked A foghorn moaned And Elliott Michener prisoner AZ-578 stared into the fierce wind Ahead loomed an island topped with a concrete fortress watchtowers and barbed wire 3
Alcatraz The toughest prison in the country 4
As the twenty new inmates marched off the boat Elliott felt full of dread How had things gone so wrong 5
