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Blow
- How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
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 300 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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- Anonymous User
- 11-05-22
What a life.
I've not seen the movie. I'm not sure if it does the book justice, but what a crazy life this guy lead. great book.
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- cb ellon
- 22-04-20
interesting story.
suffers from " it all seemed ok but little did he know that six months later he would be....
so often we know xyz will be a near miss or a success so the actual tension is not there. but it is exciting and full of detail. worth a listen.
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- Tommy Hamilton
- 14-03-23
I fair enjoyed this.
Excellent book and really informative.
It’s amazing to listen to the story behind how it all started.
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- Marty Wild
- 23-12-23
Excellent
This is a great story, it gives you the truth of the story of Pablo Escoba story.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-01-23
better than the film!
so much more detail than the film offers, clears up loose ends and tells and extremely fascinating story
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- Anonymous User
- 19-10-23
Blow
Much better than the film version. Amazing how something so good came to nothing in the end
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- James B
- 06-01-22
If you like the film, you will enjoy the book.
For my first audible I thought I'll try a story i know, As I didnt know how I'd get on with the narration of a unknown story.
I thought it was done very well & really enjoyed listening especially, the changes in voice during multiple character conversations.
really enjoyed listening.
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- dean allen
- 05-08-21
A good read
Fascinating story well read recommend to all that like a good read hope you enjoy it as I did
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- John
- 20-10-21
Long but interesting
Really enjoyed this book but felt the back story took too long and added a number of hours.
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- ross pygall
- 18-07-18
better than the movie
this was a very easy read. if you liked the movie you will love this.
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