With a riveting insider account of the lurid world of international drug smuggling and a supercharged 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. He planned to bring down with him one of the biggest cartel figures ever caught. But George wasn't about to go down alone. Mafia cop : the two families of Michael Palermo : saints only live in heaven (Book) Average Rating. The ride came to a screeching halt when DEA agents and Florida police busted Jung with 300 kilos of coke, effectively unraveling his fortune. Mafia Cop: The Two Families of Michael Palermo Saints Only Live in Heaven Richard Cagan Skyhorse Publishing Inc., Biography & Autobiography - 416 pages 1 Review Reviews. 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. 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. Your Premium Plus plan will continue for 14.95 a month after 30-day trial. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts.

Blow is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller-coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel - the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases.

Mafia Cop by Richard Stanley Cagan