News of a Kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of Colombian history. Pablo Escobar, the billionaire drugs baron, ruthless manipulator, brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Medellin Cartel. A man whose importance in the international drug trade and renown for his charitable work among the poor brought him influence and power in his home country of Colombia, and the unwanted attention of the American courts.
Terrified of the new Colombian President's determination to extradite him to America, Escobar found the best bargaining tools he could find: hostages.

'A piece of remarkable investigative journalism made all the more brilliant by the author's talent for magical storytelling' Financial Times

As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories.