The accountant's story
Subtitle: inside the violent world of the Medellin cartel
By: Roberto Escobar with David Fisher.
Contributors: Fisher, David, 1946-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grand Central Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780446178921
Subjects: Escobar, Pablo; Escobar Gaviria, Roberto; Drug dealers -- Colombia -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Pablo Escobar and the Medellín drug cartel formed the greatest criminal empire of all time. At its peak, in the 1980s, Forbes pegged the Escobar fortune at a cool $6 billion. Pablo's older brother Roberto, the author of this book, says that actually the Escobars were worth far more than that. (He notes, for instance, that the family was trafficking so much cocaine that they spent $1,000 a week just on rubber bands to hold together their bundles of cash.) Here he offers far more than diverting contraband trivia, presenting us with an insider's view of a murderous enterprise that outflanked governments on several continents. One of the most astonishing true crime books of the decade.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.