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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Mark Bowden

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw

Penguin Books (Apr 02, 2002)
9780142000953
| Paperback
304 pages | 132 x 208 mm | English
Dewey 364.17709861

Subject

  • Drug Dealers
  • Fugitives From Justice
  • Fugitives From Justice/ Colombia/ Biography
  • Narcotics Dealers/ Colombia/ Biography
  • Police/ Colombia

Plot

A tour de force of investigative journalism-this is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would only end with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes details never before revealed about the U.S.-led covert sixteen-month manhunt. With unprecedented access to important players including Colombian president Cisar Gaviria and the incorruptible head of the special police unit that pursued Escobar, Colonel Hugo Martinez-as well as top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar's intercepted phone conversations, Bowden has produced a gripping narrative that is a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world."