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

Name: Blow How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All
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ISBN: 9780312267124

ISBN-10: 0312267126

ISBN-13: 9780312267124

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Bruce Porter

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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…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 3/21/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792