Blow : how a small-town boy made $100 million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and lost it all
Porter, Bruce2015
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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 cocaine business as the sixth largest private enterprise in the Fortune 500.
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New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2015.
Collation:
308 pages : photographs (black and white) ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9781250067784 (pbk)
Dewey class:
363.45
Language:
English
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BRN:
2527173