Manhunters -- The Greatest Story I Didn't Know I Needed

The full title is Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar by Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña. This was released by St. Martin's Press on November 12, 2019. I was lucky enough to get my copy from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. Y'all. Y'ALL. I finished the audio about 15 minutes before my lunch and I was DYING to write about it. Okay, let's go.

For the first time ever, Murphy and Peña tell true stories from each of their lives, and the events that lead up to their take down of Pablo Escobar. The chapters alternate between their viewpoints leading up to the one glorious day when they helped Colombian police eliminate one of the most evil men in the world.

Going into this, I knew he was a bad guy. I didn't know how bad. I was merely a toddler when all of this happened. Escobar was a Colombian drug lord billionaire. He turned Colombia into a war zone as he became one of the biggest drug traffickers ever. He was elusive and seemingly untouchable, despite several different US and Colombian agencies trying to find and stop him.

The stories in this book are so incredible. I loved that we got to learn how Murphy and Peña got to be DEA agents. They hunted Escobar for 18 months despite $300,000 bounties on each of their heads. I don't want to say much more about it for fear of potentially spoiling the feel of the story. Fans of true crime will definitely want to pick this one up. I would recommend this to my non-true crime friends as well. It's an unbelievable story about unlikely heroes and the most amazing devoted police and agencies. I can only imagine just how good it felt to succeed for this phenomenal group of people.

I devoured this book. I can't say enough about it. I have a free copy of it, but this will absolutely be a book I'll buy to add to my true crime collection. Now I need to go binge watch all of Narcos because they were consulted by Netflix for the show. It has to be incredible if these two were involved.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/ 5 Stars

ALL THE STARS. Read this book now.

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