Product Description

A former drug dealer reveals how he and a friend helped Colombian drug lords establish a foothold in the U.S. while amassing a personal fortune.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28256 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

A real page turner.
George Jung is widely acknowedged as the man who introduced cocaine for mass consumption to people in the United States, and this book tells us how he did it. Sort of a lesson in how to smuggle.

From his begginings as a high school football player, through his early days selling marijuana in Florida, right through to his career as the number one cocaine supplier in the US and ending up with him languishing in prison, every aspect of his life is covered here in all it's glory.

With a life as rich in detail as Jung's, the book could easily have become bogged down in detail, but it's to the writers credit that he never lets the pace flag.

Highly reccommended.

Jung made $100 million - Escobar made $5 billion..profitable
This story if Jungs life is certainly a gripping read and very very well illustrated by Bruce Porter - some of the fact in here will literally blow your mind - e.g. 50k's of cocaine will est. be snorted by 36 thousand people and go from 2.5 million to be cut and resold to 11.5 million dollars..this books goes in depth that other books just don't have!!

This certainly spins the tale told by the movie, which is also a underrated tale and magnificently portrayed by Depp - the DVD is a MUST with interviews with Jung himself.

Reading this book off the back of "Killing Pablo" by M.Bowden - you definately see the bigger picture of how the coke trade was being run and the larger than life characters running it - Escobar, Ledher and Jung in this tale.

Overall ten out of ten for a well told and gripping read about the excessess of life when money is no problem - especially when you hide $30 million in a house casually..lol

What an amazing life story
George Jung certainly lived his life to the extreme. This book is a fantastic rollercoaster journey through his whole life and times. It starts a bit slow, with all his school days stuff, but once it gets onto how he started his drugs business it really is fascinating. From his early small maruajana deals to his huge cocaine deals with Pablo Escobar and Carlos Lehder. Just when you think he's done enough, he's earned plenty of money, he should stop and get out of the business, he goes and does something even bigger ! Although George is ultimately a huge criminal, by reading the book, you can't help but grow to like him, he really is an amazing character. I understand the film got bad reviews, so for that reason I haven't seen it, but I'm going to make a point of seeing it now, just to see how true to life it is. If you enjoy this book, you should check out Casino, and Wiseguys by Nicholas Pileggi (not the book with Martin Scorcese though).