Pablo Escobar was the most notorious drug lord the world has ever seen. He became one of the ten richest men on the planet and controlled 80 per cent of the global cocaine trade before he was shot dead in 1993. This is the long-awaited autobiography of his eldest son, Roberto Sendoya Escobar.

The story opens with two helicopter gunships filled with MI6 agents and troops flying in for a shootout with Pablo Escobar's men. Only a baby is left alive. That baby is the author, Roberto Escobar. In a bizarre twist of fate, a top MI6 agent takes pity on the child and, eventually, ends up adopting him. Escobar tries repeatedly to steal his son back, resulting in several horrific shoot outs and many deaths.

The child is allowed regular meetings with Escobar and it becomes apparent that the British government is working covertly with the gangster in an attempt to control the money laundering and drug trades. Pablo Esobar freely confides in his little boy. Eventually, however, things become so dangerous that the author is packed off from the family mansion in Bogota to an English public school.

As Roberto's stepfather lays dying, he hands his son a coded piece of paper which, he says, reveals the secret hiding place of a sealed barrel containing many millions of US dollars. Despite enlisting cryptologists, the author has been unable to crack the code...

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