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"A gripping ground-level narrative...a marvel of reporting: tightly wound... but also panoramic."--Washington Post "A lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks."--New York Times In The Steal, veteran journalists Mark Bowden andMatthew Teague offer a week-by week, state-by-sta... Read More about The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It

Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter ... Read More about Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city ganglife, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depthportrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigationthat landed eight gang members in prisonSandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the worl... Read More about Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction. The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968, "an instantly recognizable classic of... Read More about Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

"A master of narrative journalism, Bowden] employs the same techniques of reconstructing scenes and dialogue that made his bestselling Black Hawk Down gripping reading." -Linda Robinson, New York Times Book Review On July 22, 1992, drug lord Pablo Escobar walked out of the luxurious prison he built... Read More about Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city ganglife, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depthportrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigationthat landed eight gang members in prisonSandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the worl... Read More about Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader