What author, who Tom Wolfe called a "writer to watch" in a speech in 2010, wrote a book detailing the efforts by the governments on United States and Colombia to stop the illegal activities committed by drug lord Pablo Escobar?
Killing Pablo Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (2001) is a book by Mark Bowden that details the efforts by the governments of the United States and Colombia, their respective military and intelligence forces, and Los Pepes to stop illegal activities committed by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and his subordinates. It relates how Escobar was killed and his cartel dismantled. Bowden originally reported this story in a 31-part series published in "The Philadelphia Inquirer" and in a companion documentary of the same title.
Daniel Espartaco Sánchez Daniel Espartaco Sánchez (Chihuahua, México, 1977) is a young Mexican writer. His second issue of short stories, Cosmonauta (Cosmonaut - FETA, 2011) and his first novel, Autos usados (Used cars - Random House Mondadori, 2012) appeared in the "best book of the year" lists (2011 and 2012 respectively) from the Mexican magazine Nexos. He's been a grant holder of the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (National Fund for Arts and Culture) and has won several national writing awards. In 2012 the American publication Picnic Magazine included him as one of the representative profiles of the contemporary literature in México. In 2013 his first novel, Autos usados, was awarded with the Colima Prize for fiction (Premio Bellas Artes de Narrativa Colima para Obra Publicada), one of the most importants of Mexico.