Killing Pablo by Mark BowdenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I read this years ago in the dead trees edition. Then, I heard about this Pablo movie Escobar: Paradise Lost and thought I'd watch it on some streaming media. I did that, "meh" about the movie but in prepping for the movie (which I expected to be more fact-based), I decided to take on the audiobook edition, which is still a great tale of rise and assassination. His immense wealth, power, and lethal sway still impresses. What didn't impress was Bowden narrating his own book: "meh", he should have gotten a pro. Like, maybe pro American snipers took out Pablo, or maybe the accurately placed show was a coup de grâce, who knows?
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