" In 1992, Colombia's president called on the Americans for help against the country's most powerful enemy of the state: Pablo Escobar had brought the country to the brink of chaos with his cocaine billions and his hit squads. In his breathtaking account, Mark Bowden describes the hunt of a special unit of the American military for one of the ""biggest criminals in the world"". He draws on interviews with those involved and hundreds of pages of intelligence documents, including transcripts of wiretapped telephone conversations of Escobar



Mark Bowden is one of America's best-known journalists. He worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and other US magazines. His multi-award winning bestseller Black Hawk Down, the story of the failed US military mission in Somalia, was made into a film by director Ridley Scott. Mark Bowden lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania



Softcover

Language: German

424 pages"