BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All
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Sales Rank: 70640
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.4509861
EAN: 9780312267124
ISBN: 0312267126
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: March 21, 2001
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Sales Rank: 70640
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
Editorial Review:Product Description: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.
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blow
Blow is a classic smuggling tale and one of the first of this genre that I ever read. The book offers more insight than the movie. I recommend this book to anyone wanting a fast easy read.
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Much better then the movie
Ive seen the movie and read the book about this story, and the book is much better. The movie isn't that bad and is played well by Johnny Depp, however, the book just goes into greater detail of which the movie doesn't and leaves some important things out. It is a good book and I highly recommend it. Other great works on cocaine cartels are Mark Bowden's "Killing Pablo" and Gus Gugliota and Jeff Lean's "Kings of Cocaine".
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Kind of blows
This book drags all the way through. I was hoping to hear more of the 'horrors' of the times in prison and the nastiness of the creeps that George Jung had to deal with (including himself) in the drug business. This book falls flat.
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Very engaging! Very entertaining!
I loved the Movie, and finally read the book. The book is great! Better than the movie, partly because it's so much more in-depth. The characters are captivating (especially the star, George Jung), the story flows nicely. I learned so much about the cocaine business and what goes on in the underground world of cocaine dealing. George Jung was an incredibly risky guy. A strong-willed personality who decided he was going to make it happen. And he did just that!
If you enjoyed the movie, you will love the book!
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FREE GEORGE JUNG!
If you want to understand George Jung this is the book to read. After you read this you'll have a new appreciation for how cleverly the movie was made. Sadly, the real George had some sexual habits discussed in the book that would of been better left unsaid, that don't add to the story and only tend make him sound bad. Never the less, it gives you a clear picture of how he was used as an example and given a much harsher sentence than was warrented. George Jung should be a free man today. He's more than payed his debt to society!!!!!