Bruce Porter

Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All

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ISBN 13:: 9781250067784
author:: Bruce Porter
format:: Paperback
publisher:: St. Martins Griffin
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2015
Pages:: 352
Dimensions:: 14 x 2.4 x 21 cm
Genre:: Society, Politics & Philosophy, Social Sciences, Law & Disorder
Condition:: New
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BLOW is the remarkable true story of George Jung's rise and fall as a major player in the international cocaine trade. From his early days as a middle-class high school football hero to his involvement with the Medellín cartel, Jung's life was marked by a series of dramatic events that would take him to the heights of success and the depths of despair.

With unprecedented access to eyewitness sources, Bruce Porter chronicles Jung's meteoric rise and desperate fall in a gripping account of the world of international drug smuggling. This is a story of one man's ambition, greed, and ultimately, his downfall, set against the backdrop of the cocaine trade's heyday in the 1980s.

Part true crime, part drama, BLOW is a riveting and unflinching look at the world of organized crime, and the people who inhabit it. This is a story that will keep you on the edge of your seat, and leave you with a deeper understanding of the complexities of the human condition.

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