Character fails to escape

[Shanna_redwind]

I'm looking for a book to read for a challenge: character fails to escape. There can be a successful escape as long as there is a failed one as well.

I'll take any genre.
Thanks

[Aerulan]

Shanna are there any other requirements?
I mean, if you assume being captured at all is failing to escape whatever they were trying to fight/get away from then that's a lot more possible books I'd think. What if it's a deliberate failure? I'm sure I've read a few where a character lets themselves get caught for their own reasons.
Does it need to be a main character or would a side one work?
Any page count ok?

[RavensScar]

Think Papillon by Henri Charriere contain both successful and unsuccessful escapes

[Scott]

ZOO
The Crimson Labyrinth

[RavensScar]

Misery by Stephen king

[Shanna_redwind]

Aerulan wrote: "Shanna are there any other requirements?
I mean, if you assume being captured at all is failing to escape whatever they were trying to fight/get away from then that's a lot more possible books I'd..."

I think the intention is that the character is captured and make an escape attempt and fail at it, rather than an instance where someone is captured. And I don't think that a deliberate failure would count because that's a success in a plan, not an escape failure. Since it didn't specify MC, a side one should be fine. 125 page minimum.

Scott and Luci, thanks for the suggestions. I"m looking into them.

[Pamela]

Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold Falling Free

[Ann aka Iftcan]

The Great Escape if non-fiction will work. And it's one that almost everyone has heard of, one way or another. (I'm thinking the movie for how most of us would have heard of it.) The only reason I know it was a book first is because Paul Brickhill's daughter was on Antiques Roadshow with the book and some of her father's personal stuff.

[Shanna_redwind]

Thanks all. I actually ended up reading The Great Escape. Very interesting book.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Germinal

[Ann]

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma

[Tabitha]

The whole book is about the group trying to escape, so saying the book's name is a spoiler. If you don't mind the ending spoiled, (view spoiler)[ The Bunker Diary (hide spoiler)]

[Ann]

Nightshade

[Moloch]

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle