Killing Pablo

The bestselling blockbusting story of how American Special Forces hunted down and assassinated the head of the world's biggest cocaine cartel.



Killing Pablo charts the rise and spectacular fall of the Columbian drug lord, Pablo Escobar, the richest and most powerful criminal in history. The book exposes the massive illegal operation by covert US Special Forces and intelligence services to hunt down and assassinate Escobar.

Killing Pablo combines the heart-stopping energy of a Tom Clancy techno-thriller and the stunning detail of award-winning investigative journalism. It is the most dramatic and detailed and account ever published of America's dirtiest clandestine war.



Mark Bowden is the author of eleven books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down. He reported at The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and other magazines. His most recent book is The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden.



Vivid, fast-paced and well researched



A remarkable opus of investigative journalism



Mark Bowden's thrilling, completely engrossing book brings the man and his bloody times to vivid life. I couldn't put it down.



Powerfully written and well researched



A psychotic safari



A master of narrative journalism, Bowden employs the same techniques of reconstructing scenes and dialogue that made his bestselling Black Hawk Down gripping reading.



A well researched and staggering account.



A brilliant reconstruction... Clear and gripping



Reads like a Clancyesque thriller, it's fast-paced, full of page-turning intrigue, corruption, and thwarted pursuit.



A compelling, almost Shakespearean tale



If ever there was a real-life James Bond villain, Pablo Escobar was it... 10 times better than any fictional crime story