Research Catalog

Title

Killing Pablo : the hunt for the world's greatest outlaw / [Mark Bowden].

Author

Bowden, Mark, 1951-

Publication

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2001.

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Details

Description

296 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 Escobar's 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, Cesar 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 country's 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 lord's reign - and whose own son plays a critical role on the fateful day when Pablo is finally found."--Jacket.

Subject

• Escobar, Pablo
• Drug dealers > Colombia > Biography
• Fugitives from justice > Columbia > Biography
• Police > Colombia
• United States > Foreign relations > Colombia
• Colombia > Foreign relations > United States

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue -- The rise of El Doctor -- The first war -- Imprisonment and escape -- Los Pepes -- The kill -- Aftermath.

ISBN

0871137836

LCCN

^^^00048539^

OCLC

• 45086854
• SCSB-12694563

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library