I couldn't finish it.

I got this book while touring parts of Medellin associated with Escobar's life. Listen: he's a controversial figure and did a lot of good --BUT only because he did a lot of bad; this book is tone-deaf in walking that line... praising and celebrating his success and contributions without always acknowledging that complicated situation.

Also, it's one thing to note the subject as such, but the book itself is chauvinist, homophobic, and therefore toxic when associating reverence and masculinity with power and dominance --regardless of the atrocities associated with it.

And frankly, it's boring --like reading an excel spreadsheet of names and locations. Stick with news stories, documentaries, and programs that more accurately and entertainingly profile this complicated & controversial figure.