ALL ABOUT PABLO ESCOBAR

He was one of the richest men on earth, a congressman, a builder of soccer fields for the poor and the emperor of cocaine, who declared war on a nation of thirty million people and very nearly won.

On December 2, 1993, on a rooftop in Medellín, a heavyset bearded man kicked off his sandals and ran barefoot along the tiles toward one more escape. He didn't make it. To the soldiers standing over the body he was a monster finally destroyed; to the crowds who mobbed his funeral, clawing to touch the coffin, he was a saint of the slums. To understand how a farmer's son from the Andes became a billionaire, a mass murderer, and a myth, you have to go back to a childhood shaped by La Violencia, where death came at night and safety was something you arranged yourself.

ALL ABOUT PABLO ESCOBAR is a fast, immersive, and richly detailed portrait of the most wanted man on the planet: the polite, soft-spoken boy who never raised his voice, the smuggler who turned cocaine into an industry, the politician who wanted to be loved, and the terrorist who taught a country that fear is a language.

Inside, you'll discover:

- La Violencia, Medellín, and the paisa creed that measured intelligence by profit

- The cousin, Gustavo, and the teenage hustles that became a cartel

- The rise of cocaine and the fortune too vast to count or even store

- Plata o plomo: the congressman, the folk hero, and the war on the Colombian state

- The bombs, the prison he built for himself, and the manhunt that closed the net

- The barefoot death on the roof and the saint the slums still mourn

Part of the ALL ABOUT collection: short, modern biographies for readers who want the full story of a remarkable life without reading 800 pages to get it.

One coffee. One sitting. One unforgettable life.