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  • Blow

  • How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All
  • By: Bruce Porter
  • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
  • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (378 ratings)

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Blow

By: Bruce Porter
Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
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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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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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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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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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Blow

Much better than the film version. Amazing how something so good came to nothing in the end

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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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Excellent

This is a great story, it gives you the truth of the story of Pablo Escoba story.

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Great listen

After enjoying the film so much it was good to have more of an in-depth insight into what went on. I really enjoyed this book.

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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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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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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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