Pablo Escobar

Beyond Narcos

By: Shaun Attwood

Narrated by: Max Tilney

Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

The mind-blowing true story of Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel beyond their portrayal on Netflix.

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was a devoted family man and a psychopathic killer; a terrible enemy, yet a wonderful friend. While donating millions to the poor, he bombed and tortured his enemies - some had their eyeballs removed with hot spoons. Through ruthless cunning and America's insatiable appetite for cocaine, he became a multi-billionaire, who lived in a $100-million house with its own zoo.

Pablo Escobar: Beyond Narcos demolishes the standard good versus evil telling of his story. The authorities were not hunting Pablo down to stop his cocaine business. They were taking it over.

Shaun Attwood's War on Drugs trilogy - Pablo Escobar, American Made, and We Are Being Lied To - is a series of harrowing, action-packed and interlinked true stories that demonstrate the catastrophic consequences of drug prohibition.

©2016 Shaun Attwood (P)2016 Shaun Attwood

The criminal Bush regime

Reminded me of the criminals we are continuing to elect to our highest office. it is. study of greed and the calousness of the American elite who operate above the law

Highly recommended

Shaun Attwood's "Pablo Escobar" covers the history of cocaine, and details the CIA's involvement in transporting drugs into the United States. In the book, a whistleblower characterizes the CIA as the "world's biggest mafia." The author provides evidence that the "war on drugs" campaign was simply a war on competition. Rather than decriminalizing drugs, Ronald Reagan and George Bush's administration's doubled the U.S. prison population. Despite making Escobar a target, drugs kept flowing into the United States after Escobar was ultimately hunted down. Attwood addresses many conspiracy theories, such as Bush directly benefiting financially from Esbobar's death. Five star research!

Riveting truth of our selfish, money hungry govmt

If you think your government cares about you, you are sadly mistaken. Everyone should read this series. The U.S government cares only for itself.

I was a good and Ineresting book

I liked the book. I gave me an idea of what really happend during his life and how his cartel rose and fell

Much more than Netflix docs; war on drugs exposed

Having watched Narcos and after reading the books by Pablo’s son and Mark Bowden, I moved onto this one, which is original in its perspective of the war on drugs. None of the others confronted the role of the corrupt US government and the CIA. In Pablo’s son’s second book, which came out after this one, he finally details his father’s relationship with the CIA, who were complicit in cocaine trafficking to finance wars against communism in Nicaragua and central and South America. Perhaps that’s the reason why Pablo’s son’s second book is only available in Spanish. This author goes where the rest have not. For those who like war on drugs stuff, I recommend his entire war on drugs series.

A straight rip-off of Mark Bowden’s Killing Pablo

While an interesting book, almost every single quote is lifted from a far more thorough telling, Mark Bowden’s Killing Pablo. And when I say every quote I mean every quote. No footnotes, no credit. In my opinion, this is hastily produced effort largely focused on capitalizing on the popularity of Narcos— which is fine— but give credit where credit is due.

corruption

very interesting to hear about corruption in the 80s and 90s. pablo is a badass

Good topic

Good topic, some good information, many left wing comments and ideas, sadly I probably would have liked it much better, but I couldn't stand the voice of the reader, unless he is the author I don't understand what does a British person belong in a book about south America drug trafficking, nor the voice was pleasant.

An impressive story poorly written

Pablo Escobar's story is larger than life : he has been at the helm of a criminal network that has fought successfully for a long span of time against the government of his own country, the CIA, DEA, other drug cartels...Shaun Attwood had a great subject to treat , but it does randomly and without real insight into Escobar character. In fact the truly bad guys here are the US government (in particular Reagan and Bush) and the CIA that not only used the narcos for their dirty war agains the leftist in South and Central America , but also imported and distributed drugs in the US causing deaths and addiction of so many Americans...Very little evidence is brought to support this thesis, but probably nowadays - where truth is an option and manipulation a must - it is ok to write this stuff...Attwood also believes that drugs liberalisation (including cocaine and other heavy stuff) is the only way to fight against the narcos...Bof....
The book is very poorly read.

Conspiracy Theories Abound

Don’t pass this off as a work of non-fiction. Not sourced or attributed properly, 1/2 the book is about Escobar the other 1/2 is mudslinging conspiracy theories with no sourced proof. Interesting read but don’t believe it to be a work of non fiction. For the most part, the author was looking to sell his book and opinion on the coat tails of Netflix’s Narcos show. Hard pass from me now and on anything else he writes.