A former high school football star and drug dealer reveals how he and a friend helped Colombian drug lords establish a foothold in the U.S. while amassing a personal fortune. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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

Politics & Social Sciences

Porter, Bruce

Social Sciences

Harpercollins

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.

Pages are clean. No highlighting or underlining. Some cover and corner wear. Ships quickly with care!

The Practice of Journalism: A Guide to Reporting and Writing the News

FERRIS,Timothy

Pearson College Div

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.
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 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 super-charged 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.

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

St. Martin's: Griffin

The Miami Riot of 1980: Crossing the Bounds

Book by Porter, Bruce, Dunn, Marvin

History

Dunn, Marvin

Americas

Lexington Books

In every age of history, darkness has threatened to extinguish the light. But also in every age of history, heroes and heroines of the faith rose up to hold high the torch of their testimony--witnesses to the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. On a fateful spring day at Columbine High, others lifted up their torch and joined the crimson path of the martyrs' way. We cannot forget their sacrifice. A call is sounding forth from Heaven: "Who will take up the martyrs' torch which fell from these faithful hands?" Will you?

Martyrs' Torch

Literature & Fiction

Destiny Image Publishers

A survey of American art with special reference to Californian painting sculpture and architecture past and present particularly as those arts were represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Essays and articles contributed by Bruce Porter, Everett Maxwell, Porter Garnett, Hector Alliot, Michael Williams and many others. Originally copyrighted and published in 1916 by R.L. Bernier, Publishers, San Francisco. Reprinted edition 1988 reproduces all pages of the original volume. In addition, a general index has been added.

Art in California

Westphal Pub

Who'll Be The Clerk? I! Said The Lark: Book The Second, Nos. 13 To 24, May 1896 To April 1897 (1897)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Burgess, Gelett

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Biographies & Memoirs

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

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

The Practice of Journalism: A Guide to Reporting and Writing the News

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

The Miami Riot of 1980: Crossing the Bounds

The Miami Riot of 1980: Crossing the Bounds

Martyrs' Torch

Art in California

Who'll Be The Clerk? I! Said The Lark: Book The Second, Nos. 13 To 24, May 1896 To April 1897 (1897)

Who'll Be The Clerk? I! Said The Lark: Book The Second, Nos. 13 To 24, May 1896 To April 1897 (1897)