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Matar a Pablo Escobar (Killing Pablo) (Bolsillo)
Mark Bowden
Rba, 2007
Addicting
Mark Bowden did an excellent job writting this book, he took care of many details described in the book with all his research and investigation good work Mark .
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Guadalcanal Diary (Modern Library War)
Richard Tregaskis
Modern Library, 2000
A classic WWII story
This was one of the earliest & realistic books about America's first offensive operation against the Japanese Empire during WWII.
While the book lacks in details in some places due to Wartime censureship. It still is a great book about our fight in one of the most ...
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Mark Bowden
Signet, 2001
Bowden Demonstrates Masterful Writing
Bowden has written a masterful account of the Black Hawk Down tragedy which became a famous Tony Scott movie. The scene is grim: Mogadishu under the warlords with an inept, incompetent United Nations force presuming that it will separate the warring factions and ...
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The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
Mark Bowden
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008
Good Stuff
There were lots of inside things in the book. I greatly enjoyed it. It also arrived very prompt.
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Once There Was a War (Penguin Classics)
John Steinbeck
Penguin Classics, 2007
Humanity behind the horror
Only Steinbeck can share the humanity behind the horror of war so eloquently, bringing you into the lives so profoundly affected by one of the darkest events in history! A chilling and essential historical chronicle!
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Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire
Mark Bowden
Grove Press, 2000
EXCELLENT
FROM START TO FINISH YOU KNEW PRETTY MUCH WHAT THE OUTCOME WOULD BE BUT THIS DID NOT STOP ME FROM PUTTING THE BOOK DOWN. WAS AMAZED WITH ALL THE ACTUAL ACCOUNTS DETAILED WITHIN THE BOOK AND THE WORK THAT WENT INTO GATHERING ALL THE REQUIRED INFORMATION TO MAKE THIS ...
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Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
David Zucchino
Grove Press, 2004
You won't be able to put it down
This is hands-down the most compelling book I've read so far on the war in Iraq. It made me late going back to work during several lunch hours because I just couldn't put it down until I finished another chapter.
I think too many people have this image of the ...
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Mark Bowden
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Another Bowden Thriller
The full story of the life and times of Pablo Escobar: from his early life of crime as a headstone thief to his brutal rise to the pinnacle of the Medellin drug cartel. Most of the story however, is about how the joint military and intelligence Task Force eventually ...
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Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts
Mark Bowden
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Anyone who has read Mark Bowden?s Black Hawk Down or Killing Pablo knows that he is capable of putting us in the heat of a story in a way few writers can. Road Work gathers the best of his award-winning writing, from his breakout stories for the Philadelphia Inquirer to his influential pieces in the Atlantic on the conflicts in ...
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
Mark Bowden
Grove Press, 2007
Bowden Delivers a Masterpiece
Guests of the Ayatollah presents the extensively researched, impelling non-fiction style for which Bowden has become widely acclaimed through his other best sellers. As someone who has read other Bowden books, I felt Guests of the Ayatollah is his best book to date.
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Bringing the Heat
Mark Bowden
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000
Awesome - A must for diehard fans and causal fans alike
Mark caputures a team I remember in my youth with remarkable detail. Awesome insights. Remarkable profiles of players and coaches. You grow up with them, go on the field with them, and go home with them. I highly recommend this book. Only critism is sometimes the in ...
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Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million
Mark Bowden
Grove Press, 2003
Truth stranger than fiction
Mark Bowden originally covered the true story of Joey Coyle and his demented $1.2 million find as a journalist. He then wrote this amazing account of the hapless Philly Longshoreman's botched and deranged attempt to keep the money.
It's written in a pacey, manic ...
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The Best American Crime Writing 2006 (Best American Crime Reporting)
Mark Bowden, Otto Penzler, ...
Harper Perennial, 2006
One of the best of the crime writing series
The Best American Crime Writing 2006 rocks! I have enjoyed this series since the first one came out in 2002. If you enjoy short true crime pieces this series is for you. This is the best one in the series since the first volume came out. The stories range from ...
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Greatest Moments in Iowa Hawkeyes Football History (Greatest Moments in)
Triumph Books (IL), 2006
bought for a big iowa football fan-my dad
I bought this book for my dad for Christmas two years ago. I new it would be the perfect gift for him. He LOVES Iowa Hawkeyes football. I even looked through it. It covers the team from the early days and goes up to 2006. The pictures and stories were interesting ...
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The Emergency Teacher: The Inspirational Story of a New Teacher in an Inner City School
Christina Asquith
Skyhorse Publishing, 2007
Reality Beats Down Idealism
It is fair to note that had Christina Asquith taught in a more affluent part of Philadelphia or a middle class suburban community, she probably couldn't write a book about her one-year experience as a teacher. Before being trained as such (even trained teachers have ...
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