Here is the inside story of the brutal rise and fall of Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage -- a reign of terror that would only end with Escobar's death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes the never-before-relvealed details of how U.S. operatives covertly led the sixteen-month manhunt. Drawing on unprecedented access to the soldiers, field agents, and key Colombian and U.S. officials involved in the chase, as well as top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar's intercepted phone coversations, Bowden creates a dtipping narrative that is epic in scope, a tour de force of investigative journalism, and a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world.
year: 2002, 2001, 2000
call number/section: 364.1, 920
subjects: escobar, pablo, police, colombia, fugitives from justice, drug dealers, colombia, foreign relations, united states, united states, colombia, criminals, drug traffic
Editions
Bowden, Mark
Penguin Books (2002)
Traces the rise of Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar and his ultimate defeat--death in 1993, after a sixteen-month manhunt, at the hands of a Columbian Search Bloc team with help from the U.S.
Schools: 3
Bowden, Mark
Atlantic Monthly Press (2001)
Traces the rise of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and his ultimate defeat--death in 1993, after a sixteen-month manhunt, at the hands of a Columbian Search Bloc team with help from the U.S.
Schools: 0
Bowden, Mark
Penguin Books (2000)
Here is the inside story of the brutal rise and fall of Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage -- a reign of terror that would only end with Escobar's death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes the never-before-relvealed details of how U.S. operatives covertly led the sixteen-month manhunt. Drawing on unprecedented access to the soldiers, field agents, and key Colombian and U.S. officials involved in the chase, as well as top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar's intercepted phone coversations, Bowden creates a dtipping narrative that is epic in scope, a tour de force of investigative journalism, and a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world.
Schools: 0
Bowden, Mark
Penguin Books (2000)
Here is the inside story of the brutal rise and fall of Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage -- a reign of terror that would only end with Escobar's death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes the never-before-relvealed details of how U.S. operatives covertly led the sixteen-month manhunt. Drawing on unprecedented access to the soldiers, field agents, and key Colombian and U.S. officials involved in the chase, as well as top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar's intercepted phone coversations, Bowden creates a dtipping narrative that is epic in scope, a tour de force of investigative journalism, and a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world.
Schools: 1