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1	Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw more books like this by Mark Bowden In a gripping, up-close account, acclaimed journalist Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down, " exposes the details of how U.S. military and intelligence operatives covertly led the mission to find and kill the world's most dangerous outlaw: Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar. see all copies from £6.21! new only from £9.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War more books like this by Mark Bowden On October 3, 1993, a band of U.S. soldiers embarked on a mission in Somalia to capture two warlords. It was a simple plan. What erupted instead was a night of bloodshed and death. It became the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. This is the extraordinary minute-by-minute account of that courageous, ... see all copies from £2.03! new only from £6.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Best Game Ever: Giants Vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL more books like this by Mark Bowden The bestselling author "Black Hawk Down" writes the remarkable story of the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Colts and the Giants--considered by many to be the greatest football game ever played. see all copies from £9.65! new only from £9.65! \| first editions
4	Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam more books like this by Mark Bowden Bowden tells the sweeping story of the 1979 Tehran hostage situation through the eyes of the captives, the soldiers sent to free them, the radical, naive Islamist students, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. This is a remarkably detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the ... see all copies from £5.52! new only from £7.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad more books like this by David Zucchino, Mark Bowden (Foreword by) The story of the bold assault on Baghdad by the Spartan Brigade of the Third Infantry Division. It was one of the most decisive battles in American combat history, and the biggest armored battle involving American troops since the Vietnam War. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £3.45! \| first editions
6	Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts more books like this by Mark Bowden The pieces collected in ROAD WORK reflect Mark Bowden's wide-ranging interests and his skill as a seasoned newspaperman--most famous for the book BLACKHAWK DOWN, he also spent 25 years writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many of the longer pieces here appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. Bowden investigates conditions at Guantamo Bay, draws an ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency more books like this by William J Daugherty, PH.D., Mark Bowden (Foreword by) see all copies from £7.94! new only from £13.04! \| first editions
8	Finders Keepers the Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million more books like this by Mark Bowden In 1981, an unemployed drug addict named Joey Coyle found over a million dollars in unmarked bills. Before he was arrested en route to Acapulco, he had given away much of the money to friends, and was lauded by the media as a saintly hero. In a series of newspaper articles, collected here, Mark Bowden took another view: that Coyle was a hopeless ... see all copies from £5.52! new only from £5.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire more books like this by Mark Bowden From the bestselling author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the true story that "The Baltimore Sun" calls "shocking . . . briskly and brilliantly told" of Larry Lavin, a wealthy dentist who built the foundation for a cocaine empire that would grow to generate over $60 million in annual sales. see all copies from £4.58! new only from £10.18! \| first editions
10	The Best American Crime Writing more books like this by Mark Bowden (Editor), Otto Penzler (Editor), Thomas H Cook (Editor) Readers will uncover the year's best crime writing and reporting in this all-new collection edited by the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Black Hawk Down" and "Killing Pablo." see all copies from £6.02! new only from £8.68! \| first editions
11 view cover	Killing Pablo more books like this by Mark Bowden Includes enhanced CD with exclusive video of the actual hunt for Pablo Escobar On July 22, 1992, Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar walked out of the luxurious prison he built for himself and disappeared into the Colombian jungle. His audacious escape destroyed the nation's tenuous ceasefire with its infamous narcos, and pushed it into open war ... see all copies from £2.76! new only from £5.52! \| first editions
12 view cover	Our Finest Day: D-Day, June 6, 1944 more books like this by Mark Bowden, Chronicle Books, Professor Stephen E Ambrose (Foreword by) D-Day is one of the significant turning points in wartime history and was the largest single military operation ever launched. In Our Finest Day, best-selling author Mark Bowden reveals the human faces behind this brutal battle, using reproductions of original documents. Included in these pages are personal letters and poignant journal entries ... see all copies from £5.10! new only from £7.59! \| first editions
13 view cover	Guests of the Ayatollah more books like this by Mark Bowden (Read by) A renowned journalist tells the sweeping story of the 1979 Tehran hostage situation through the eyes of the captives, the soldiers sent to free them, the radical, naive Islamist students, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Abridged. 8 CDs. see all copies from £2.02! new only from £2.02! \| first editions
14 view cover	Black hawk down more books like this by Mark Bowden Late in the afternoon of Sunday, 3 October 1993, 140 elite US soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead, they were pinned down ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Killing Pablo : the hunt for the richest, most powerful criminal in history more books like this by Mark Bowden This work charts the rise and spectacular fall of the Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar, richest and most powerful criminal in history. The book exposes the massive illegal operation by covert US Special Forces and intelligence services to hunt down and assassinate Escobar. It is a story that has rarely been told before: Mark Bowden has had ... see all copies from £2.00! new only from £4.86! \| first editions
16 view cover	Bringing the Heat more books like this by Mark Bowden see all copies from £5.52! new only from £11.35! \| first editions
17	Finders Keepers by Mark Bowden see all copies from £1.38! new only from £2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam more books like this by Mark Bowden A national bestseller, Bowden's book first came out in 1979, just as the United States and Iran faced off over nuclear weapons. Now, 26 years later, this book remains timely and important, as Iran and America's confrontation with militant Islam is more complex than ever before. see all copies from £5.75! new only from £10.18!
19	Doctor Dealer more books like this by Mark Bowden He had all the ingredients for a successful future: youth, good looks, social position. At age 26, Larry Lavin was already a millionaire living along Philadelphia's Main Line. Then he was arrested. His crime: masterminding a $60 million-a-year cocaine empire, the biggest drug operation in Philadelphia history. see all copies from £5.52! signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Matar A Pablo Escobar: La Caceria del Criminal Mas Buscado del Mundo more books like this by Mark Bowden, Claudia Molinari Medina (Translator) Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of the Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin, whose criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage--a reign of terror that would end only with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes the never-before-revealed details of how U ... see all copies from £10.74! new only from £13.75!
21 view cover	Black Hawk Down Mti CS more books like this by Mark Bowden (Introduction by), Joe Morton (Read by) BLACK HAWK DOWN A "NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST From acclaimed director Ridley Scott and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer comes a riveting motion picture scripted by Ken Nolan as depicted in this bestselling audiobook by author Mark Bowden. Based on actual events, "Black Hawk Down is the heroic ... see all copies from £5.52! new only from £5.52!
22 view cover	The Emergency Teacher: The Inspirational Story of a New Teacher in an Inner-City School more books like this by Christina Asquith, Mark Bowden (Foreword by), Harry K Wong (Introduction by) Christina Asquith presents a moving first-hand account of her year teaching in one of Philadelphia's worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, in desperate need of 1,500 new teachers, instituted a policy of hiring "emergency certified" instructors. Asquith, then a 25-year-old ... see all copies from £10.33! new only from £10.33!
23	The best of Henry Longhurst : on golf and life more books like this by Henry Longhurst, Mark Wilson, Ken Bowden see all copies from £1.38! first editions
24 view cover	Black Hawk Down Mti more books like this by Mark Bowden (Introduction by), Joe Morton (Read by) From acclaimed director Ridley Scott and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer comes a riveting motion picture scripted by Ken Nolan as depicted in this bestselling audiobook by author Mark Bowden. Based on actual events, "Black Hawk Down" is the heroic account of a group of elite U.S. soldiers sent into Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993 as part of a U.N. ... see all copies from £10.48! new only from £10.48!
25 view cover	Pitt Rivers: The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers more books like this by Mark Bowden see all copies from £38.56! first editions

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