{"product_id":"killing-pablo-9780802127730","title":"Killing Pablo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A master of narrative journalism, [Bowden] employs the same techniques of reconstructing scenes and dialogue that made his bestselling \u003cem\u003eBlack Hawk Down\u003c\/em\u003e gripping reading.” –Linda Robinson, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn July 22, 1992, drug lord Pablo Escobar walked out of the luxurious prison he built for himself and disappeared into the Colombian jungle. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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. Their mission: to track down Pablo. But this time, nobody was interested in capturing him. This time, they intended to finish the job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis time, they were going to kill him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKilling 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. 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. operatives covertly led the sixteen-month manhunt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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. At every phase, he brings to life the men who brought the drug lord down. There is the Colombian president, César 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. There is the U.S. ambassador, Morris D. 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBowden’s last book, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-seller \u003cem\u003eBlack Hawk Down\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. In Killing Pablo, Bowden’s reportage achieves a new level, his narrative an epic scope. Action-packed and unputdownable, \u003cem\u003eKilling Pablo\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force of investigative journalism and a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Bowden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201854374006,"sku":"9780802127730","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_311f1afb-d874-4a11-8742-e874b4788ea1.jpg?v=1775336447","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/killing-pablo-9780802127730","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}