By Jerad Strickland
The book Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden
This is a book about a drug dealer that goes from being a small time hoodlum to the 7th richest person in the world. With his fortune built on the money from marijuana selling and growth leading up to cocaine selling and making everyone bow down to the money or the guns of Pablo Escobar. As fast as he wanted it he owned it, with a fraction of the money he had he built a soccer field with lights so the players could play at night, which he was commonly known to participate in those games himself, he built a church that his mom promised to God that she would build. When he was finally killed he was in the one place no one thought that he would be caught in by the cops for one of two reasons that no one would turn him in due to respect or fear and the other is because he could have and would bribe the cops or any one else for that matter. He was well known for paying people off that saw things a different way, in one instance he was put on trial and so he hired the judge?s brother because they didn?t get along and that judge wouldn?t take a pay off so since his brother was Pablo?s lawyer the judge left the case and the new judge did take bribes so that was settled on that judges end. On his way to the top he created homes, one that was very outlandish due to all the animals and all the extreme things that were in it, he would do things like have women race naked to a sports car and the winner would get the car. He spent money like that all the time if he wasn?t flying to America he was going to spain, if he wasn?t doing that he was throwing a party at his house where he would smoke weed after which he would tell stories and eat tons of fast food accompanied with Pepsi.
But that all started to change when he killed a man that claimed his and many others money was dirty. From than on he was a man on the run, the man that at one time was basically national treasure was now hated and was having to hide and watch what he did but with no doubt he didn?t and it was a major downfall to his empire. He would kill people for just random dumb stuff like he killed this one man for not letting his wife feed her child, which was strange to me because of the fact that he was fifty times as much sex with random fourteen and fifteen year old girls, so if your having tons of sex with all these girls and not caring about how your wife?s feelings are even if she says that it doesn?t bother her