# News of a Kidnapping

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- Book: [News of a Kidnapping](https://www.bookquiver.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/news-of-a-kidnapping) ([News of a Kidnapping.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/news-of-a-kidnapping.md))
- Authors: [Gabriel García Márquez](https://www.bookquiver.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-14-0003-493-2
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2008-01-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet,...