Jack Laurence

He might be free, but not for the first time in his life.

He's wanted.

And he knew it wouldn't take much for the authorities to begin tracking him down.

Getting this new fake passport took a little while as his friends had been, at this point, scammed so many times from people either saying they were him or that they were breaking him out and just needing 10,000 here or 5,000 there.

And so to begin with, they weren't convinced it was actually him.

However, once that hurdle was overcome, they sprang into action and a new passport and new ATM cards arrived.

And again, it's time to leave.

So are you still playing around in the world of the, shall we say, not legal?

In fact, he would again be arrested in another country and again face a death penalty.

But that's a story for another time.

David would do a few more stints behind bars in various countries around the world before retiring from the life in 2016.

He decided it was far easier to write about crime instead of committing it.

He in fact wrote a couple of books, one about his escape from Klong Prem prison, titled Escape, the true story of the only Westerner ever to escape Thailand's Bangkok Hilton, the link to which is in the show notes of this episode.

David spent his life on the run, running from authorities and always trying to stay one step ahead of them, trying to study their tactics and just how they operated.

But what if you knew how they worked?

What if you knew every inch of how they tracked people?

Because at one point in time, you were one of them.

Annie Macron worked as an intelligence officer for one of the world's most famous government spy agencies on the planet, MI5.

That was until the day she went on the run.

Next time on Wanted.