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Blow (1993) (edit title/settings)

How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All

by Bruce Porter (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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IN 1622 A SPLINTER GROUP OF PILGRIMS from the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts journeyed up the coast to Weymouth to try to set up a trading post, and if they'd only heard about the herring they might not have made such a mess of it.

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  • Remorse: This book is a real-life story of a success story gone bad. He truly regrets all of his choices in the end. Very sad.

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  1. Bruce Porter (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harpercollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0060179309
Page Count: 320

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