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Blow

How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All

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Blow

By: Bruce Porter
Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
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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 Medellín 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 300 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 supercharged 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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Organised Crime True Crime Exciting Business Biography Latin America Nonfiction Crime
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What a great read. Seen the movie 1st, but loved the book more.
Alot more indepth of course.
This narrator was really good as well with different voices of several characters.

What a ride

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What a great story! George Jung the master smuggler..Well read and easy to listen to.

Awesome story.

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What a story. Moves along nicely. I found myself taking the long way home so I could hear a bit more.

A Cracking Yarn.

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Amidst the curtain of the US drug war this tells a captivating tale of entrepreneurialship.

heralding story with fantastical events...

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Pretty crazy times back then by the sounds of things! I found this tale to be very entertaining and had a few laughs along the way.

Good yarn with a few laughs along the way

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A great story told well.
Interesting how the movie differs from the book in some ways

Far better than the movie!

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If you enjoyed the movie than you won’t be disappointed in the book I promise you!

The book is always better than the movie!

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This was truly a very interesting story. I liked it a lot and enjoyed the narrator.

Great book

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It wasn't until I started listening to this that I realised how many books and movies I've watched, read or listened to on this topic.
They're all pretty much as follows...
1. Small time dealer
2. Large scale trafficker
3. Anecdotes of the highlife
3. Busted by the Feds
4. Jail
5. Write a book

I didn't finish this one.

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