Mark BowdenVezi magazinul Libris- 2 stele, bazat pe 1 voturi
Bowden has a way of making modern nonfiction read like the best of novels .
Killing Pablo ] is absolutely riveting.
-- Denver Post A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo is the story of the vio-lent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel.
Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would end only with his death.
In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes details never before revealed about the U.
-led covert sixteen-month manhunt.
With unprecedented access to important players--including Colombian president Cesar Gaviria and the incorruptible head of the special police unit that pursued Escobar, Colonel Hugo Martinez--as well as top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar's intercepted phone conversations, Bowden has produced a gripping narrative that is a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world.
