North Babylon native Billy Hayes, a former drug smuggler whose nightmarish incarceration in Turkey was portrayed in the 1978 film "Midnight Express," is pitching to publishers a compilation of letters ...

Billy Hayes is as charming a (former) drug smuggler as you’d ever hope to meet. And if his name isn’t familiar, his story is, thanks to the movie “Midnight Express.” Based on Hayes’ best-selling book ...

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