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BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All | Bruce Porter

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BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of flying marijuana into the United States from the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when he met Carlos Lehder, a young Colombian car thief with connections to the then newly born cocaine operation in his native land. Together they created a new model for selling cocaine, turning a drug used primarily by the entertainment elite into a massive and unimaginably lucrative enterprise-- one whose earnings, if legal, would have ranked the cocaine business as the sixth largest private enterprise in the Fortune 500. The ride came to a screeching halt when DEA agents and Florida police busted Jung with three hundred kilos of coke, effectively unraveling his fortune. But George wasn't about to go down alone. He planned to bring down with him one of the biggest cartel figures ever caught. With a riveting insider account of the lurid world of international drug smuggling and a super-charged drama of one man's meteoric rise and desperate fall, Bruce Porter chronicles Jung's life using unprecedented eyewitness sources in this critically acclaimed true crime classic.

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BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All | Bruce Porter

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George Jung a small town high-school football star single handedly became the world's premiere importer ofcocaine from Colombia's Medellin cartel, changing the course of an entire generation. "Blow" is a high-velocity look at George Jung's spectacular rise and fall.

BarbaraBB Wow, seems intriguing! 5y

Cinfhen This sounds great!! I vaguely recall a film by the same name but I think the story was different 5y

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BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All | Bruce Porter

August Wrap Up: I only read 6 books last month, pretty much owing to being on vacation (Adventures in the Loire Valley and Paris!); and devoting a lot of reading energy to a poetry anthology (still in progress.) That said, I would have to say that Bruce Porter's biography of a drug runner in the '70s, while stylistically not the best written narrative NF out there, the topic is interesting enough to warrant the book being my Pick of the Month!

tpixie There's a movie coming out-similar story based on real life but I cannot remember the name or the main characters name. So keep a watch out! I tried to look on my Internet feed but can't find it in my history. I feel like the first or last name might be Dean. 7y

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