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"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"
"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"
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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 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.
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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This review is from: Blow: How a Smalltown Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All (Paperback)
George Jung is widely acknowedged as the man who introduced cocaine for mass consumption to people in the United States, and this book tells us how he did it. Sort of a lesson in how to smuggle.From his begginings as a high school football player, through his early days selling marijuana in Florida, right through to his career as the number one cocaine supplier in the US and ending up with him languishing in prison, every aspect of his life is covered here in all it's glory. With a life as rich in detail as Jung's, the book could easily have become bogged down in detail, but it's to the writers credit that he never lets the pace flag. Highly reccommended.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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What an amazing life story,
This review is from: Blow: How a Smalltown Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All (Paperback)
George Jung certainly lived his life to the extreme. This book is a fantastic rollercoaster journey through his whole life and times. It starts a bit slow, with all his school days stuff, but once it gets onto how he started his drugs business it really is fascinating. From his early small maruajana deals to his huge cocaine deals with Pablo Escobar and Carlos Lehder. Just when you think he's done enough, he's earned plenty of money, he should stop and get out of the business, he goes and does something even bigger ! Although George is ultimately a huge criminal, by reading the book, you can't help but grow to like him, he really is an amazing character. I understand the film got bad reviews, so for that reason I haven't seen it, but I'm going to make a point of seeing it now, just to see how true to life it is. If you enjoy this book, you should check out Casino, and Wiseguys by Nicholas Pileggi (not the book with Martin Scorcese though).
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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What an amazing life this guy lead......,
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This review is from: Blow: How a Smalltown Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All (Paperback)
Starts off a bit slow, all the boring bits about George Jung's school life, but once it gets going with how he started out in the drug smuggling business, it really is fascinating stuff. This guy had $10 million stashed in the walls and pipes of his specially built house at one stage, because he didn't know what to do with it !!! An absolutely amazing story that sometimes beggars belief. You start thinking, 'Jesus...Whats he going to get involved with next.' He just didn't know when to stop !To top it all, he actually seems like a really nice bloke to know ! I haven't seen the film yet, due to its poor reviews, but stuff the reviews, I'll definitely watch it now.
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