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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 only end 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 Cisar 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.
- Sales Rank: #15683 in Books
- Published on: 2015-07-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.20" h x .90" w x 5.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
Amazon.com Review
Readers of Black Hawk Down know Mark Bowden can tell an exciting story about as well as any writer at work today. Killing Pablo is further proof. It describes the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, a notorious Colombian drug lord who became one of the narcotic trade's first billionaires. Pablo--Bowden refers to him by his first name throughout the book--started out as a petty thief and wound up running a massive smuggling empire. At his height in the 1980s, he owned fleets of boats and planes, plus 19 separate residences in Medellin, each with its own helipad. Violence marked everything he did: "He wasn't an entrepreneur, and he wasn't even an especially talented businessman. He was just ruthless." He bought off police, politicians, and judges throughout his country, and killed many others who wouldn't cooperate. The Colombian government tried to capture him, but without much luck; he evaded them time after time. "Now and then the police achieved enough surprise to catch him, literally, with his pants down. In [1988], about one thousand national police raided one of his mansions," writes Bowden. "Pablo fled in his underwear, avoiding the police cordon on foot." He got away, again, but his days were numbered. He was making powerful enemies in both Colombia and the United States. The final straw probably came when Pablo's men murdered a popular politician and, three months later, planted a bomb on a plane, killing 110 people, including two Americans.
The bulk of Killing Pablo describes what happened when the U.S. government put its resources behind the hunt for Pablo. Bowden describes the search in gripping detail, from the massive electronic-surveillance effort to bureaucratic infighting between rival U.S. agencies. This is an outstanding work of reportorial journalism, too: in the epilogue, Bowden drops tantalizing hints that it was an American--not a Colombian--who delivered the killing shot to Pablo in 1993. Readers looking for a real-life thriller--or any kind of thriller, for that matter--won't do much better than Killing Pablo.
From Publishers Weekly
The author of the bestseller Black Hawk Down, which depicted the U.S. military's involvement in Somalia, Bowden hits another home run with his chronicle of the manhunt for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. He traces the prevalence of violence in Colombian history as background, then launches into the tale of the dramatic rise and fall of "Don Pablo," as he was known. Packed with detail, the book shows how Escobar, a pudgy, uneducated man who smoked marijuana daily, ruthlessly built the infamous Medellin cartel, a drug machine that eventually controlled much of Colombian life. As Bowden shows, the impotence of the Colombian government left a void readily filled by Escobar's mafia. While not ignoring the larger picture e.g., the terrible drug-related murders that wracked the South American country in the late 1980s and early 1990s Bowden never loses sight of the human story behind the search for Escobar, who was finally assassinated in 1993, and the terrible toll the hunt took on many of its main players.. There's a smoking gun here: Bowden charges that U.S. special forces were likely involved in helping some of Colombia's other drug lords assassinate perhaps more than a hundred people linked to Escobar. There's no doubt, according to Bowden, that the U.S. government was involved in the search for Escobar after a 1989 airplane bombing that killed 100 and made him, in Bowden's words, "Public Enemy Number One in the world." This revelation highlights one of Bowden's many journalistic accomplishments here: he shows how the search for Escobar became an end in itself. (May 8)Forecast: Bowden will go on a monster tour (about two dozen cities) to promote this BOMC selection, which also has its own Web site (www.killingpablo.com). Expect healthy sales.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Who is Pablo Escobar? Is he the loving family man who cares about his wife and children, the man who wants to help raise the standard of living for people in his community and loves nothing more than to play soccer with the kids in the neighborhood? Or is he the heartless kingpin who helped bring drugs into the United States, waged war with the Medellin Drug Cartel, and played cat and mouse with the police and the U.S. military who tried to capture him? The program, read by the author (Black Hawk Down), includes film of the final hunt for Escobar and of the aftermath. (The CDs are enhanced for computers with the appropriate plug-ins.) It is fascinating to hear about the ways that the police worked to locate Escobar using a variety of tracking devices, but the descriptions of the concomitant drug murders can be a bit graphic. Libraries with true crime collections will want to add this. Danna Bell-Russel, Library of Congress
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By nature drawn-out and protracted; author did his best
By Allen Smalling
KILLING PABLO: THE HUNT FOR THE WORLD"S GREATEST OUTLAW may be the only time a fictional character has recommended a nonfiction book to me: In AMC's series BREAKING BAD, teenaged "Flynn" White's uncle Hank Schrader, a DEA agent, recommended this book to his nephew as a realistic look at how the U.S. government gets the bad guys of the drug world.
Uncle Hank had a point. KILLING PABLO is as accurate an overview as we are likely get of how Pablo Escobar rose to prominence as the world's largest, richest and politically influential drug lord (Colombian cocaine) of his time, the Seventies and Eighties, prelude to the excruciatingly long time it took to bring such a highly visible, nimble, even popular character to justice in the later Eighties and early Nineties. It is quite possible that Escobar would have lasted a lot longer had the dual energies of the FBI and CIA had not entered Colombia and stayed on his case for the years necessary to root him out of the pretend jail he built for himself with clout and money -- then into fugitive status -- finally to justice, and here justice means shooting him dead (which by all accounts he richly deserved). But Escobar was simply the most spectacularly successful of the cocaine drug lords, and it has to be said that he'd never have had the opportunity to enrich himself had United States demand for the white "marching powder" had not reached epidemic levels in the 1970s and 1980s, infecting, we must recall, even one senior staffer in Jimmy Carter's administration.
All of this is never less than interesting, but occasionally a slow slog nonetheless, as Bowden is obliged to detail the nature of the Colombian economic and justice systems, which more or less against their will gave Escobar the kind of privilege and clout that would have made Al Capone blush. This saga simply does not have the tight dramatic structure of a BLACK HAWK DOWN, in which capture, planning and rescue were almost made for a three-act structure. Is there a take-with in the Escobar saga? Well, Mark Bowden writes well enough but is not willing to sacrifice detail for dramatic intensity; he has refused to write a "nonfiction novel" in KILLING PABLO. All this makes the book a worthy but not necessarily fascinating read. Nonetheless, it will continue to be read.
There may also be a lesson abrewing (call it a take-with for the future, if you will) that United States' intervention can accomplish near-miracles given enough money, time and commitment. (Bowden in fact belives that the competitive nature of FBI - DEA antagonism may have spurred the dominant DEA to do better than it would have otherwise). Nonetheless, it should be kept in mind that no matter how hard our government tries to understand that of another, something is going to be lost in translation. Perhaps it is not going too far to say that if the USA indirectly, and no matter how well meaningly, continues to set up the conditions that enable an Escobar, the citizens of such a country will look at such action less as beneficence, and more as a crude and costly remedial effort.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
This is a really good history of the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar
By Amazon Customer
As you would expect from Mark Bowden, this is a really good history of the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar. The Netflix TV show, Narcos, is not always factually accurate (but very entertaining). This is the real story of what happened. Of course, the TV show exaggerates some things. However, Pablo Escobar was so crazy, that the truth sometimes exceeds the fiction. "Killing Pablo" leaves a lot of loose ends (quite deliberately) because much of what really happened has never been fully disclosed. For example, who really fired the fatal bullet that killed Escobar? A Navy SEAL? A Colombian soldier in the final shootout? A Colombian police officer at point-blank range after Escobar was already down? At least so far, everyone who knows isn't talking and everyone talking doesn't really know.
Overall, this is a good to great book and highly recommended for anyone looking for the facts behind the Escobar story and much of the broader (and tragic) history of Colombia?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Very good read.
By DutchieNLD
I loved this book. Perhaps not told as well as Black Hawk Down but still very good. Probably it has a lot to do with the fascinating subject. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject matter.
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