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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Pablo Escobar; Pablo Escobar |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Bowden |
ISBN: | 9780802127730 0802127738 |
OCLC Number: | 999549834 |
Description: | 390 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Prologue -- The rise of El Doctor -- The first war -- Imprisonment and escape -- Los Pepes -- The kill -- Aftermath. |
Responsibility: | Mark Bowden. |
Abstract:
"A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo 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 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."--Provided by publisher.
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