Killing Escobar

In 1989 the Scottish Mercenary and ex-SAS Operative, Peter McAleese, was hired by a Colombian drug cartel to recruit and lead a small team of ex-special forces commandos on a mission to assassinate the world’s biggest drug baron, Pablo Escobar. Told in McAleese’s own words, this gripping documentary includes amazing and intimate archive from his life and footage of the Colombia mission itself. It also features interviews with other key participants such as fellow mercenary Dave Tomkins, DEA officers Javier Pena and Steve Murphy (whose experiences were dramatised in the acclaimed Netflix series “Narcos”) and McAleese’s Cali Cartel liaison Jorge Salcedo. Killing Escobar reveals how McAleese’s violent upbringing in Glasgow, his training in the SAS and experience as a mercenary in Africa led him to take on this seemingly suicidal mission and how it would reshape his life forever.