Killing Pablo

Mark Bowden

Oct 2009 · Atlantic Books Ltd

About this ebook

The bestselling blockbusting story of how American Special Forces hunted down and assassinated the head of the world's biggest cocaine cartel.

Killing Pablo charts the rise and spectacular fall of the Columbian drug lord, Pablo Escobar, the richest and most powerful criminal in history. The book exposes the massive illegal operation by covert US Special Forces and intelligence services to hunt down and assassinate Escobar.
Killing Pablo combines the heart-stopping energy of a Tom Clancy techno-thriller and the stunning detail of award-winning investigative journalism. It is the most dramatic and detailed and account ever published of America's dirtiest clandestine war.

Ratings and reviews

READ A COUPLE OF BOOKS ON PABLO COS THERE FASCINATING HOW HE CAME FROM A POOR BACKGROUND AND BECAME NO1 SUPPLIER OF COCAINE IN THE 70s TILL HE DIED HE WAS A BILLIONAIRE JUST SELLING COKE AND HE HID MONEY ONLY WAITING TO BE FOUND

Saw it on breaking bad so I lookex it up. Looks cool but I can't buy it in da U.S.

Astonishing insight into the what can happen when you (the subject of the tale in this case) believe your own publicity.

About the author

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.