
Blow
How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All
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Narrated by:
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Stephen Bowlby
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By:
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Bruce Porter
About this listen
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.
©2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.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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Awesome story.
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A Cracking Yarn.
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heralding story with fantastical events...
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Good yarn with a few laughs along the way
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Interesting how the movie differs from the book in some ways
Far better than the movie!
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The book is always better than the movie!
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Great book
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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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