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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 (1,224 ratings)

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Blow

By: Bruce Porter
Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
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Publisher's 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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I waited a long time for this book

I waited a long time for this book and it did not disappoint! There were parts that dragged of course but this deep dive is what I’ve been waiting to read/ hear since I was 16 and first heard about “Boston George”

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Wild story

Great story of an American gangster. So many wild stories from the 70s and 80s.

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great story

as per usual the book is far superior to the movie! story was highly detailed with the exploits of george jung! have recommended to many people and will continue to do so!

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A World Shared

As a former undercover narcotics detective, I found this book both riveting and familiar. Thank you....

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If you enjoyed the movie you'll love the book!

I will be listening to this again. The writing and the performance are awesome in my opinion.

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Kept My Interest from Start to Finish

Never saw the movie so was spellbound with this story sad and disgusting as it is.

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Scary Journey But Sad Ending

The narrators voice was very pleasing and easy to understand the most memorable part in the book was at the end when his dad played the cassette in his car over and over again telling him good bye for the last time from prison very good book very well layed out it becomes more adventurous towards the last 40% of the book.

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Great story, narrator annoying.

I try and learn all I can about Pablo Escobar and the Non-Hollywood version of Blow.
This Narrator though, I’m sure he’s a well educated man, comes off as annoying. As if he is trying to sound intelligent.
The way he pronounces certain words, sounds like he is talking from his nose.
I thought I could get over it but I found myself mocking the narrator, especially when he pronounces “George”. Great story though.

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great

the story was very good and it made for great listening. going to find more of the like.

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A very good read...

This book was quite in depth for being centered on one person. It really takes you into a much realm of the illegal drug trade that has been going on in the 70s and 80s and still continues to this very day. A must read if you are into the history of illegal drug Trafficking....

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