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Book SynopsisBLOW 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.
The ride came to a screeching halt when DEA agents and Florida police busted Jung with three hundred kilos of coke, effectively unraveling his fortune. But George wasn''t about to go down alone. He planned t
