News of a kidnapping  -  Gabriel García Márquez

KORTE INHOUD

This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women--all but one a journalist--by the Medellín drug boss Pablo Escobar. The carefully orchestrated abductions were Escobar's attempt to extort from the government its assurance that he, and other narcotics traffickers, would not be extradited to the United States if they were to surrender.

From the highest corridors of government to the domain of the ruthless drug cartels, we watch th...
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1997 Uitgever: Knopf 291 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0375400516 ISBN-13: 9780375400513