Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World`s Greatest Outlaw 9780802127730

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Автор: Bowden Mark
Название: Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World`s Greatest Outlaw
ISBN: 9780802127730
Издательство: Grove Press
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0802127738
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 400
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 20.02.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 206 x 140 x 33
Поставляется из: США
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A master of narrative journalism, Bowden] 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

On 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 nations tenuous cease-fire with its infamous narcos, and pushed it into open war with the Medelln drug cartel.

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. Their mission: to track down Pablo. But this time, nobody was interested in capturing him. This time, they intended to finish the job.

This time, they were going to kill him.

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. 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.

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 Escobars 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, Csar 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 countrys 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 lords reign-and whose own son plays a critical role on the fateful day when Pablo is finally found.

Bowdens 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-its everything I admire) and became a finalist for the National Book Award. In Killing Pablo, Bowdens reportage achieves a new level, his narrative an epic scope. Action-packed and unputdownable, Killing Pablo is a tour de force of investigative journalism and a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world.

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World`s Greatest Outlaw, Bowden Mark