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Killing Pablo
Mark Bowden
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Description for Killing Pablo
Paperback. The bestselling blockbusting story of how American Special Forces hunted down and assassinated the head of the world's biggest cocaine cartel. Now the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1x8pp b/w plates. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 384.
A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo tells 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 covert sixteen-month manhunt that was led by US Special Forces and intelligence services. With unprecedented access to important players - including Colombian president Cisar Gaviria and the incorruptible head ... Read more
A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo tells 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 covert sixteen-month manhunt that was led by US Special Forces and intelligence services. With unprecedented access to important players - including Colombian president Cisar Gaviria and the incorruptible head ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786490711
SKU
V9781786490711
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99-10
About Mark Bowden
Mark Bowden is the author of eleven books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down. He reported at The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and other magazines. His most recent book is The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden.
Reviews for Killing Pablo
If ever there was a real-life James Bond villain, Pablo Escobar was it... 10 times better than any fictional crime story
Uncut
A compelling, almost Shakespearean tale
Los Angeles Times
Reads like a Clancyesque thriller, it's fast-paced, full of page-turning intrigue, corruption, and thwarted pursuit.
San Francisco Chronicle
A brilliant reconstruction... Clear and gripping ... Read more
Uncut
A compelling, almost Shakespearean tale
Los Angeles Times
Reads like a Clancyesque thriller, it's fast-paced, full of page-turning intrigue, corruption, and thwarted pursuit.
San Francisco Chronicle
A brilliant reconstruction... Clear and gripping ... Read more