In Killing Pablo, Bowden’s reportage achieves a new level, his narrative an epic scope. And there is the leader of the Colombian forces, Colonel Hugo Martinez, an incorruptible man who lives under constant threat during the drug lord’s reign–and whose own son plays a critical role on the fateful day when Pablo is finally found.īowden’s last book, the New York Times best-seller Black Hawk Down, was hailed by critics (David Halberstam called it “a brilliant book, a heartbreaking story wonderfully well told–it’s everything I admire”) and became a finalist for the National Book Award. Busby, who brings in the most sophisticated surveillance team in the world, code-named Centra Spike, and the best team of manhunters, the mysterious Delta Force. There is the Colombian president, C’sar Gaviria, afraid for his life and the future of his nation, who is forced to do the unthinkable: allow a foreign military to operate within his country’s borders. At every phase, he brings to life the men who brought the drug lord down. operatives covertly led the sixteen-month manhunt.ĭrawing on unprecedented access to the soldiers, field agents, and officials involved in the chase, as well as hundreds of pages of top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar’s intercepted phone conversations, Bowden creates a gripping narrative that reads as if it were torn from the pages of a military technothriller. In an intense, up-close account, best-selling author and award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes the never-before-revealed details of how U.S. Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage–a reign of terror that would end only with his death. This time, they intended to finish the job. But this time, nobody was interested in capturing him. Over the coming days and weeks, the United States would launch a joint military and intelligence operation with the Colombian government, assembling a team of expert personnel and an arsenal of state-of-the-art weaponry and surveillance technology the likes of which the world had never seen. His audacious escape destroyed the nation’s tenuous cease-fire with its infamous narcos, and pushed it into open war with the Medell”n drug cartel.
On July 22, 1992, drug lord Pablo Escobar walked out of the luxurious prison he built for himself and disappeared into the Colombian jungle. “A master of narrative journalism, employs the same techniques of reconstructing scenes and dialogue that made his bestselling Black Hawk Down gripping reading.” –Linda Robinson, New York Times Book Review
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