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News of a Kidnapping: From the Nobel Laureate, the International Bestseller That Takes Us into the Horrific World of the Medellin Drug Cartel Paperback - 1998
by García Márquez, Gabriel
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- Title News of a Kidnapping: From the Nobel Laureate, the International Bestseller That Takes Us into the Horrific World of the Medellin Drug Cartel
- Author García Márquez, Gabriel
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 291
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date June 1, 1998
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0140269444-7-1
- ISBN 9780140269444
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Summary
Consumed these past twenty years by a "biblical holocaust," Colombia has endured leftist insurgencies, right-wing death squads, currency collapses, cholera epidemics, and, most recently and corrosively, drug trafficking. Returning to his days as a reporter for El Espectador, Gabriel Garcia Marquez chronicles, with consummate skill, the period in late 1990 when Colombian security forces mounted a nationwide manhunt for Pablo Escobar, the ruthless and elusive head of the Medellin cartel. Ten men and women were abducted by Escobar?s henchmen and used as bargaining chips against extradition to the United States. From the testimonies and diaries of the survivors, Garcia Marquez reconstructs their bizarre ordeal with cinematic intensity, breathtaking language, and rigor. We are drawn into a world that, like some phantasmagorical setting in a great Garcia Marquez novel, we can scarcely believe exists?but that continually shocks us with its cold, hard reality.
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SHE LOOKED OVER her shoulder before getting into the car to be sure no one was following her.