Mark Bowden

Mark Bowden is an American journalist and writer who was a national correspondent and longtime contributor to The Atlantic. He is best known for Black Hawk Down, his 1999 account of the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, and for Killing Pablo, which follows the hunt for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. He also wrote Guests of the Ayatollah and Hue 1968, an account of the Battle of Huế.