Escobar: The Inside Story of Pablo Escobar, the World's Most Powerful Criminal

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Murderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been used to describe Pablo Escobar, but one is irrefutable legend. For the poor of Colombia, he was their Robin Hood, a man whose greatness lay not in his crimes, but in his charity; for the Colombian rich he was just a bloodthirsty gangster, a Bogie Man used to scare children in their beds; for the rest of the world flush with his imported cocaine, he was public enemy number one.

During his reign as the world s most notorious outlaw, he ordered the murder of thousands at one point even bombing a passenger jet smuggled drugs into the US in mini-submarines inspired by Bond films, was elected to parliament, staged midnight escapes through the jungle from whole army battalions, built his own prison, consorted with presidents, controlled an estimated fortune of over $20 billion, and for over 3 years outwitted the secret American forces sent to kill him. His ambition was as boundless as his violence, and neither was ever satisfied.

This is the first major, and definitive, biography of this remarkable criminal life, told in jaw-dropping detail by the one man who, more than any other, can understand just how far he came and just how low he fell: his brother, Roberto Escobar.

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Morbidly compelling reading. - Courier Mail

Well written...a good surprising read. - Y Weekly.

Told with a cool reserve... Escobar's life makes for a grim, ensnaring tale. - Kirkus Reviews

Jaw-dropping... Roberto's portrait of his brother is an important corrective - Misha Glenny, The Sunday Times

More eye-opening than a line of coke - Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard

Escobar led such an extraordinary life that the narrative is always absorbing. - Independent

Authoritative . . . remarkable. - Daily Express

Author Bio

Roberto Escobar operated for over fifteen years as the accountant for Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel. After handing himself into the Colombian authorities in 1992, he was placed in a maximum security prison, until his release in 2004. He now lives on a farm in rural Colombia.