Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden

Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden

A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo is the story of the vio-lent 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 end only 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 Cesar 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.

Mark Bowden is the author of twelve novels, the most well-known of which is the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down. He spent twenty years as a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer and now contributes to the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and other publications. He lives in Pennsylvania and is a writer in residence at the University of Delaware.