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

Mark Bowden

Paperback | Pages: 296 pages

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Title	:	Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Author	:	Mark Bowden
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 296 pages
Published	:	April 2nd 2002 by Penguin USA (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Mystery. Crime. True Crime. Biography

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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 C&eacutesar 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. "The story of how the U.S. Army Intelligence and Delta Force commandos helped Colombian police track down and kill Pablo Escobar is a compelling, almost Shakespearean tale." ("Los Angeles Times") "Absolutely riveting. . . . Mark Bowden has a way of making modern nonfiction read like the best of novels." ("The Denver Post")

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Original Title:	Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
ISBN:	0142000957 (ISBN13: 9780142000953)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Cornelius Ryan Award (2001)

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I was impressed with the reporting that this book would have required, especially for a U.S.-based author writing about Columbia's underworld. While Pablo Escobar remains a household name nearly two decades after his 1993 death, I knew almost nothing about his brutal life and the also brutal effort to kill him.

tons of fun, very light and breezy read. not as good as Kings of Cocaine, but an excellent supplement thereof.



The main story in this book is the hunt to find and kill Pablo, a Columbian drug billionaire. This is a true story and interesting in itself. But like so many good books there are other stories threaded through the book. One story is about how the American embassey is a shadow government that directs the Colombian government. How thousands of Americans from a score of different Federal agencies are involved in the hunt and in government policy. The DEA, CIA, FBI, Rangers, Delta force, army,

Mark Bowden first had me at Black Hawk Down. His mastery of narrative nonfiction, weaving hundreds of interviews and countless hours of research into an as-it-happens story is particularly useful in the stories he tells - the stories in the niches. Prior to this book I had last read his nearly 1000 page Guests of the Ayatollah, which told the story of the Iranian Hostage Crisis from start to finish.Having visited Colombia, in particular Antioquia where Pablo was from, and Medellin, which was the

The term "stranger than fiction" is what comes to mind as I sit to write my thoughts on Killing Pablo. There were so many times throughout the reading of this book that, had it been simply a fictional story, I would have been put off by how over the top so much of it seemed; how unbelievable the story was: the ineptitude and corruption of the Colombian government, the blundering nature of bureaucracy, the striking similarities between thier oligarchy and our "democracy", the charm of Pablo while

Too many characters and I only cared about one of them, and I already knew what was going to happen to him. I would encourage you to watch Narcos instead of reading this book.