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KILLING ESCOBAR

By David WHITNEY

SPHERE ABACUS - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2021

The true story of the mission to assassinate the world’s most dangerous man.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Documentary, True Story, Historical
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Duration
- 89 mn
- Director(s)
- David WHITNEY
- Producer(s)
- Mick MCAVOY, Alan CLEMENTS, Nick TAUSSIG
- Synopsis
- 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 access to never-before-seen footage of the mission and interviews with McAleese and other key players in the story, Killing Escobar reveals how McAleese’s violent upbringing in Glasgow, his training in the SAS and experience as a mercenary in Africa led him into the jungles of Colombia to kill Escobar, and how this mission would reshape his life forever.