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Bestseller Mark Bowden (BLACK HAWK DOWN) traces the meteoric rise, savage reign, and bloody fall of Colombian cocaine emperor Pablo Escobar during the 1980s. Escobar's life was so preposterous and vicious that merely describing the facts makes for an astounding read: he went from a tombstone thief to becoming the seventh richest man on Forbes's 1989 list; during his war with the Colombian government he was responsible for the deaths of nearly 500 policemen, 30 judges, and one presidential candidate; his multiple mansions were stocked with giraffes and helicopter pads; he arranged his own "arrest" and built his own luxurious "prison" known as "la catedral" from which he continued to run his ruthless drug cartel; and in order to murder a rival he blew up a commercial plane carrying 110 passengers----the act of hubris that probably led to his demise. Bowden's book rises above the known storyline when he focuses on the U.S. special ops team that was assembled to capture or kill Escobar, and here Bowden's research and military knowledge lend KILLING PABLO the pace of an action-thriller.
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