PDF Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw

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Killing
Pablo
The
Hunt
for
the
World's
Greatest
Outlaw
Description
8220Thstory of
how
the U.S. Army Intelligencenbspnbspnbsp
helped Colombian police track down and kill Pablo
Escobar compelling, almost Shakespearean
tale.82218212Lo TimesWhen the cocaine kingpin
Pablo Escobar escaped his
is a Angeles lavish,
custom built prison in Colombia, the fallout
drove the nation to the brink of chaos. In
Killing Pablo, acclaimed journalist Mark Bowden
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tells the story of the US military8217sfifteen-m
onth mission to find him. Drawing 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 Escobar8217sintercepted
phone conversations, Bowden creates a narrative
that reads as if it were torn from the pages of a
Tom Clancy thriller.Bowden also tells the story
of Escobar8217srise, how he built a criminal
organization that would hold an entire nation
hostage8212an the stories of the intrepid men
who would ultimately bring him down. The cast of
characters ranges from the US ambassador to
Colombia and special forces commandos to
Escobar8217sarchenemy, Col. Hugo Martinez.It
was Martinez8217sson, raised in the shadow of
constant threat from Escobar8217sfollowers, who
would ultimately track the fugitive to a Bogota
rooftop on the fateful day in 1993 when the
outlaw would finally meet his end. Killing Pablo
is a tour de force of narrative journalism and a
stark portrayal of rough justice in the real
world.