Pablo Escobar: My Father

Pablo Escobar — a Colombian drug baron and terrorist. Escobar is called the “King of Cocaine” because he led the Medellín Cartel, which by the end of the 1980s controlled 80% of the world’s cocaine market. To this day, he remains one of the most famous, brutal, and wealthy criminals in history.

So much has been said about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the most famous drug dealer of all time. But all of it was told by outsiders who didn’t know him well enough. And at last his silence was broken by his eldest son, Juan Pablo Escobar.

More than two decades after the hunt for the cocaine king was successfully over, Pablo Escobar’s son travels back in time and reveals the entire truth about his father. Using a wide variety of memories, Juan Pablo Escobar tells us what his father was really like: unimaginably cruel and frightening, yet endlessly devoted to his family.

This is not a story about a child—a little boy desperately searching for redemption for his father. It is a shocking look at the consequences of never-ending violence, mixed with an endless need for forgiveness and peace.