Pablo Escobar was the founder of the Medellin Cartel, and was a notorious drug lord. He began his criminal career as a young man doing petty crimes before graduating to serious criminal activity. He eventually employed other people to kidnap people who owed him money. His most notorious kidnapping scheme, where the victim was businessman Diego Echavarria, who was kidnapped and eventually killed in the summer of 1971, Escobar received a $50,000 ransom from the Echavarria family. He made a pretty good living off of his criminal enterprises, amassing some $30 million by the time of his death. Another thing that grossed me out was that he married a 15 year old girl when he was 26. I realize there are all sorts of age gaps in relationships, but it is nasty when one party is not even legal adult age. He had been incarcerated and escaped, which is where this book comes in. It goes over the manhunt and his subsequent capture/death. Overall, it was a decent book.