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Vynikajúci dokument o Pablovi Escobarovi je príkladom, ako má vyzerať nekompromisná, neústupčivá investigatívna žurnalistika. Titul, ktorý sa pýši prestížnou novinárskou Cenou Corneliusa Ryana, sleduje krvavý príbeh vzostupu a pádu hlavy medellínskeho kokaínového kartelu, nazývaného aj „Kokaínový kráľ“. Escobarova zločinecká ríša na vrchole moci držala v hrsti celý štát a s ním ako rukojemníkov tridsať miliónov ľudí. Túto hrôzovládu ukončila až smrť narkobaróna. Dôkladný pohľad oceňovaného novinára Marka Bowdena z bezprostrednej blízkosti opisuje donedávna neznáme podrobnosti o šestnásť mesiacov trvajúcom tajnom love na Pabla pod vedením USA. Vďaka dosiaľ nevídanému prístupu k dôležitým hráčom – vrátane kolumbijského prezidenta Césara Gaviriu a plukovníka Huga Martineza, neskorumpovateľnému vodcovi špeciálnej policajnej jednotky, ktorá išla po Escobarovi –, či prísne tajným dokumentom a prepisom odpočutých Escobarových telefonátov napísal Bowden strhujúci príbeh, ktorý je zároveň výstižným obrazom drsnej podoby spravodlivosti v skutočnom svete.

Renomovaný americký spisovatel píšící o akcích americké armády a speciálních sil Mark Bowden nyní přichází se svou Poslední akcí – působivým popisem pátrání po Usámovi bin Ládinovi. Bowden získal přístup ke klíčovým pramenům a může nás díky tomu zavést do místností, v nichž byla přijímána klíčová rozhodnutí, i do míst, kde probíhala vlastní akce. Popisuje postupně vývoj událostí, které nakonec vyústily až v akci příslušníků námořní pěchoty z útvaru SEAL v Abbottábádu, v posledním úkrytu Usámy bin Ládina.

Late in the afternoon of Sunday, 3 October 1993, 140 elite US soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night in a hostile city, fighting for their lives against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. When the unit was rescued the following morning, 18 American soldiers were dead and more than 70 badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse - more than 500 killed and over 1000 injured. Authoritative, and insightful, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute account of modern war.

From "a master of narrative journalism" (New York Times Book Review), the bestselling history of the biggest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War

When you are selling, the way you deliver your message will matter as much as, or more than, what you actually say. In this book, the authors reveal nonverbal communication skills guaranteed to give you the advantage in every sales situation. It reveals the universal body language signals that command respect and teaches you how to use them.

This book offers the best of Bowden's award-winning nonfiction, from his breakout stories for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was a reporter for twenty-four years, to his significant pieces in The Atlantic on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. From activists fighting black rhino poachers in Zambia, to interrogation of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, to the world of Saddam Hussein, to the private and public lives of unique, fascinating Americans such as Al Sharpton and Norman Mailer, reporter Bowden is capable of putting us in the heat of a story in a way few others can.--Publisher.

From "a master of narrative journalism" (New York Times Book Review), a riveting history of the biggest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War

From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a definitive account of the Iran hostage crisis during which fifty-two Americans were held hostage in the Tehran embassy for 444 days, offering insights into the event from the perspective of the hostages, soldiers sent to free them, the radical captors, and diplomats trying to end the crisis. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

Bestselling author Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offering an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader.

Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of the Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin, whose criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage, a reign of terror that would end only with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes the never-before-revealed details.