In 1989, Scottish mercenary and ex-SAS operative,
Peter McAleese
, was hired by a Colombian drug cartel to lead a small team of ex-special
forces commandos on a mission to assassinate the world’s biggest drug
baron, Pablo Escobar. With heartstopping dramatic reconstruction, access to
never-before-seen footage of the mission and first person accounts from
both the mercenaries and the cartel,
Killing Escobar
is a documentary thriller that reveals how one man's violent upbringing in
Glasgow, training in the SAS and experience as a mercenary in Africa led
him to the jungles of Colombia and the heart of the Medellín cocaine
empire. At 78 years old and returning to the Catholic faith of his youth,
McAleese reflects on one of the most ambitious and perilous assignments of
his career; the one that pushed him closer to death than any other, a
mission to kill the most feared man in the world, Pablo Escobar.
