| Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million With the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All |  | Author: Bruce Porter
Publisher: Harpercollins (Mm)
Category: Book
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0061091642
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9780061091643
ASIN: 0061091642
Publication Date: August 1994
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Explains how a meeting with a Colombian car thief while serving time for a minor charge led to fifteen-year-old football player George Jung becoming the American conduit to the Medellin cocaine cartel and his rise to the top of the drug-smuggling trade. Reprint.
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 blow June 2, 2008
Blow is a classic smuggling tale and one of the first of this genre that I ever read. The book offers more insight than the movie. I recommend this book to anyone wanting a fast easy read.
Much better then the movie February 26, 2008
Ive seen the movie and read the book about this story, and the book is much better. The movie isn't that bad and is played well by Johnny Depp, however, the book just goes into greater detail of which the movie doesn't and leaves some important things out. It is a good book and I highly recommend it. Other great works on cocaine cartels are Mark Bowden's "Killing Pablo" and Gus Gugliota and Jeff Lean's "Kings of Cocaine".
 Kind of blows September 3, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book drags all the way through. I was hoping to hear more of the 'horrors' of the times in prison and the nastiness of the creeps that George Jung had to deal with (including himself) in the drug business. This book falls flat.
Very engaging! Very entertaining! August 20, 2007
I loved the Movie, and finally read the book. The book is great! Better than the movie, partly because it's so much more in-depth. The characters are captivating (especially the star, George Jung), the story flows nicely. I learned so much about the cocaine business and what goes on in the underground world of cocaine dealing. George Jung was an incredibly risky guy. A strong-willed personality who decided he was going to make it happen. And he did just that!
If you enjoyed the movie, you will love the book!
FREE GEORGE JUNG! January 4, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you want to understand George Jung this is the book to read. After you read this you'll have a new appreciation for how cleverly the movie was made. Sadly, the real George had some sexual habits discussed in the book that would of been better left unsaid, that don't add to the story and only tend make him sound bad. Never the less, it gives you a clear picture of how he was used as an example and given a much harsher sentence than was warrented. George Jung should be a free man today. He's more than payed his debt to society!!!!!
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