In the last two decades of the twentieth century, and the first decade of this century, advances in modern digital technology have increased the number of choices available to entertainment consumers to an extremely marked degree.

Not only is the quality of the picture and sound on digital media far superior to that of analog, digital technology also opens up a far greater range of options as to how and where people enjoy their entertainment.

With far lighter and smaller media players than those used by previous generations, the modern consumer can enjoy audio and video on the move, or in places where there is no fixed electricity supply.

Among the benefits of this new technology is the ability to create sound recordings from written books. This is useful for anyone who wants to listen to information or entertainment while they are driving, and especially useful, of course, to the partially sighted or blind person.

One of the ranges of sound recordings that are now available for digital download is a series of True Crime Audiobooks. One of the most notorious of the villains portrayed in this series is the infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar.

Escobar made a fortune from the worldwide trafficking of narcotics, so much so that at one point he was rated the seventh richest man in the world.

Escobar started out as a simple car thief in the streets of Medellin, Columbia. It is even alleged, although this was never proven to be fact, that he stole headstones from gravestones, and sold them on to people in other villages.

It is believed that in 1975 he was responsible for the murder of a fellow drug dealer, whose men he then employed as his own. His career was characterized by examples of bribery and corruption, and then the murder of anyone who refused to accept the bribe.

When he was first arrested in 1976 he tried to bribe the judge, and when that was unsuccessful he murdered the two arresting officers. Later he was to murder three candidates for the Columbian presidency, and to bomb a commercial flight.

The book “Killing Pablo”, now available as a fully downloadable True Crime Audiobook, examines what happened when, following the bombing of the plane which contained two Americans, the US Government became involved.

The launching of an operation which combined security and military forces meant that the end had to come sooner or later for the man described as the most ruthless of all of the Columbian drug lords.

The state of the art technology used in surveillance, and the military power of the most powerful nation on earth, would prove too much even for Escobar.

This book is a brilliantly written, fascinating examination of how this notorious criminal was hunted down and killed.