News of a Kidnapping

News of a Kidnapping

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 06/03/2014

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's News of a Kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of Colombian history.


'She looked over her shoulder before getting into the car to be sure no one was following her'


Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, ruthless manipulator brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Madellin cartel. A man whose importance in the international drug trade and renown for his charitable work among the poor brought him influence and power in his home country of Colombia, and the unwanted attention of the American courts.


Terrified of the new Colombian President's determination to extradite him to America, Escobar found the best bargaining tools he could find: hostages.


In the winter of 1990, ten relatives of Colombian politicians, mostly women, were abducted and held hostage as Escobar attempted to strong-arm the government into blocking his extradition. Two died, the rest survived, and from their harrowing stories Marquez retells, with vivid clarity, the terror and uncertainty of those dark an volatile months.


'Reads with an urgency which belongs to the finest fiction. I have never read anything which gave a better sense of the way Colombia was in worst times' Daily Telegraph


'Compellingly readable. A book with all the panache of Marquez's fiction, hitting home rather harder' Sunday Times


'A piece of remarkable investigative journalism made all the more brilliant by the author's talent for magical storytelling' Financial Times

ISBN:
9780141917337
9780141917337
Category:
Organized crime
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
06-03-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Living to Tell the Tale, among other works of fiction and non-fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

He lives in Mexico City. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on 6 March 1927 in Aractaca, Colombia, and died on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City, aged 87. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for a body of work that includes novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories.

His most famous works include Leaf Storm (1955), In Evil Hour (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch(1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), News of a Kidnapping (1996), Living to Tell the Tale (2002) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004).

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