Killing Escobar
Killing Escobar
The true story of Scottish mercenary Peter McAleese, who was hired to kill Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, offering a full account of that fateful mission and the dark consequences for those involved, and featuring exclusive interviews, archive footage and drama reconstruction. In 1989, former Parachute Regiment member McAleese and his friend Dave Tomkins were hired by a Colombian drug cartel to undertake a mission to kill Esobar, the world's biggest cocaine dealer, and he gathered a select team of ex-special forces operatives and began training for a lightning raid on Escobar's hacienda. After 11 weeks of intense preparation, the men launched the operation that ultimately led to disaster and would have a devastating effect on McAleese and others