Author(s): Mark Bowden

True Crime

Killing Pablo charts the rise and spectacular fall of Pablo Escobar, the richest and most violent criminal in history. Mark Bowden exposes for the first time the massive covert operation by US Special Forces to hunt down and assassinate the man he describes as 'the billionaire godfather of international drug trafficking'. Pablo Escobar's criminal career is like no other. An elected member of Colombia's parliament, he built houses, roads and hospitals, and became a hero to the poor. This book also tells the story of the men of the special forces who ultimately destroyed Pablo Escobar. Mark Bowden has had exclusive access to highly classified intelligence documents, secret surveillance footage and Escobar's wiretap transcripts, and has interviewed all the major players in the manhunt. His unputdownable account of these events has never before been told. Killing Pablo combines the heart-stopping energy of a Tom Clancy thriller with the investigative detail of award-winning journalism. Paperback