The most terrifying moments for Juan Pablo Escobar and his family (his mother and little sister) came after Pablo died. But read "Killing Pablo" too as a companion book to learn how they eventually tracked him down. So, if you're planning to read one book about Escobar, it should be this. There are lot of things written in this book about the Medellin Cartel, Cali Cartel, Pablo Escobar, and his sicarios that would be hard to find elsewhere. And to be fair, you either have to talk to an insider or you have to be one to have access to such information.Īnd that is where this book shines. He never goes to Hacienda Napoles and the zoo filled with exotic animals and birds which Pablo loved so dearly, for example. My main complaint with Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw was that that Mark Bowden looked at Pablo from really afar. The kid (a grown man now) doesn't actually hate his father, but he knows what he was. You're going to casually slide in some little good things about him in the book to make the readers sympathize with him." I knew that Juan Pablo Escobar, Pablo Escobar's son, has published his memoir about his father. After finding no other book to read about Escobar, I read At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel, which was quite amazing.īut that book dealt with Cali cartel, and my focus kept returning to Pablo. I read "Killing Pablo" by Mark Bowden a few years back and to be quite honest, it was a bit of a slog. I read a few articles, gawked at some of his photos, and sometimes got confused that why Wagner Moura wasn't in the pictures with his goofy smile and then realized that the real Pablo Escobar looked less handsome and was a real life narco and a terrorist who killed hundreds of people. So after watching Narcos last year, I had an urge to read about Pablo Escobar.
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