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Blow : How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All by Bruce Porter (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-100312267126
ISBN-139780312267124
eBay Product ID (ePID)1657270
Product Key Features
Edition2
Book TitleBlow : How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicIndustries / General, Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology, Sociology / General, General, Organized Crime
IllustratorYes
GenreTrue Crime, Social Science, Business & Economics, Medical
AuthorBruce Porter
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight13.4 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN92-054756
Dewey Edition20
ReviewsThe story belongs to anyone who has ever savored a well-told tale of adventure, greed, deceit, and revenge. Best of all, it's true., "Extraordinarily interesting...Mr. Porter has done an excellent job telling the tale of a very unusual entrepreneur." -- The New York Times Book Review "The story belongs to anyone who has ever savored a well-told tale of adventure, greed, deceit, and revenge. Best of all, it's true." -- Houston Chronicle "A sleigh-ride-to-hell story of how '60s hippie innocence turned into '80s megadepravity...finely researched, told with pizzazz." -- Kirkus Reviews, A sleigh-ride-to-hell story of how '60s hippie innocence turned into '80s megadepravity...finely researched, told with pizzazz., "Extraordinarily interesting...Mr. Porter has done an excellent job telling the tale of a very unusual entrepreneur."-- The New York Times Book Review "The story belongs to anyone who has ever savored a well-told tale of adventure, greed, deceit, and revenge. Best of all, it's true."-- Houston Chronicle "A sleigh-ride-to-hell story of how '60s hippie innocence turned into '80s megadepravity...finely researched, told with pizzazz."-- Kirkus Reviews, Extraordinarily interesting...Mr. Porter has done an excellent job telling the tale of a very unusual entrepreneur.
Dewey Decimal363.4/5/09861
Edition DescriptionMovie Tie-In,Revised edition
SynopsisBLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable 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 anew 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., BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable 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.
LC Classification NumberHV5825.P625 1993
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- Aug 07, 2020
Cocaine dealing and a man quick rich ideas
Book has humour in it. The notes in the novel make the movie more clear about what George's life was about . Not for under age readers It's regarding drug dealing at the time lack of securityVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Sep 14, 2021
Great book
Ever since I watched the movie Blow and finding out that it was a non-fiction book I had to get it! It is a great buy.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
