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Blow
- Author
- Bruce Porter
- Narrator
- Stephen Bowlby
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 10 October 2017
- Run Time
- 13 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- True crime, Organized crime
What to expect
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 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 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.
Critics Review
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“Extraordinarily interesting…Mr. Porter has done an excellent job telling the tale of a very unusual entrepreneur.”
New York Times Book Review
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“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
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“With drama and detail…Porter reconstructs the fast, amoral life of George Jung…whose adventures with stacks of cash, kinky sex, and dangerous deals hold voyeuristic fascination.”
Publishers Weekly
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“A sleigh-ride-to-hell story of how ‘60s hippie innocence turned into ‘80s megadepravity…finely researched, told with pizzazz.”
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Details
- Author
- Bruce Porter
- Narrator
- Stephen Bowlby
- Duration
- 13 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 October 2017
- ISBN
- 9781538478332
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- True crime, Organized crime
Synopsis
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 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 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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