Pablo Escobar: My Father
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4.3 • 60 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
THE POPULAR SERIES NARCOS CAPTURES ONLY HALF THE TRUTH. HERE, AT LAST, IS THE FULL STORY.
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Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug kingpin of all time, but these versions have always been told from the outside, never from the intimacy of his own home.
More than two decades after the full-fledged manhunt finally caught up with the king of cocaine, Juan Pablo Escobar travels to the past to reveal an unabridged version of his father—a man capable of committing the most extreme acts of cruelty while simultaneously professing infinite love for his family.
This is not the story of a child seeking redemption for his father, but a shocking look at the consequences of violence and the overwhelming need for peace and forgiveness.
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In this surprisingly dispassionate account, Escobar examines the meteoric career of Pablo Escobar, a notorious Medellin cartel boss. To the world, the senior Escobar was a supervillain; to the author, he was Dad, and the son attempts to set the record straight about a man who had become myth long before his violent death. As a young criminal, Pablo Escobar stumbled into cocaine trafficking just as the demand for the white powder reached new highs in the U.S. Ruthlessness and business acumen gave him a lion's share of the growing market. He often said that if he didn't earn a million pesos by the time he was 30, he'd kill himself; in fact, by 30, he'd earned billions. For drug dealers, however, notoriety is the kiss of death; a bullet finished him on a Medellin rooftop in 1993, but not before he helped drag Colombia into chaos. His son grew up in a world of incredible privilege that included a private zoo on the family estate. Yet he also lived in isolation, his playmates a coterie of bodyguards. While focusing largely on his father, Escobar also includes the grim repercussions the cartel boss's career had on his family. The matter-of-fact prose serves the material well when one's daily life is a surreal blur of excess and danger, there's no need for embellishment. Escobar, now an architect in Argentina, certainly has an agenda, but he's not oblivious to the lives cut short by his father's death dealing. As the closing acknowledgement states: "To my father, who showed me what path not to take."
Customer Reviews
Good
Very good book . After watching Narcos and reading this book I feel like humanity has been deceived once again about the life of Don Pablo . Greatest of All Time
Great book
I have been obsessed with reading about Pablo. I had not read previous books so it was kind of hard to follow what was really going on as far as the the political side. I should have read another book first outlining the criminal side first to better follow what his son was talking about. However, I loved this book. So if you haven’t read much on him you will still love this book. I take that back, I tried reading a book written by one of Pablo’s girlfriends, Virginia, but it was more about her huge ego and her life story than Pablo, I couldn’t even finish it. I was glad to see Juan Pablo was able to get out of Columbia and not be the person his father was, his mother should be respected because she raised a wonderful son.