Blow: How a Smalltown Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All

Author:   Bruce Porter
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
Edition:   Revised and Revised ed.
ISBN:  

9780312267124


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   21 March 2001
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Bruce Porter
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
Imprint:   St Martin's Press
Edition:   Revised and Revised ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780312267124


ISBN 10:   0312267126
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   21 March 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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Extraordinarily interesting...Mr. Porter has done an excellent job telling the tale of a very unusual entrepreneur. -- The New York Times Book Review The story belongs to anyone who has ever savored a well-told tale of adventure, greed, deceit, and revenge. Best of all, it's true. -- Houston Chronicle A sleigh-ride-to-hell story of how '60s hippie innocence turned into '80s megadepravity...finely researched, told with pizzazz. -- Kirkus Reviews


Extraordinarily interesting...Mr. Porter has done an excellent job telling the tale of a very unusual entrepreneur. -- The New York Times Book Review <br><br> The story belongs to anyone who has ever savored a well-told tale of adventure, greed, deceit, and revenge. Best of all, it's true. -- Houston Chronicle <br><br> A sleigh-ride-to-hell story of how '60s hippie innocence turned into '80s megadepravity...finely researched, told with pizzazz. -- Kirkus Reviews <br>


Extraordinarily interesting...Mr. Porter has done an excellent job telling the tale of a very unusual entrepreneur. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> The story belongs to anyone who has ever savored a well-told tale of adventure, greed, deceit, and revenge. Best of all, it's true. -- Houston Chronicle <br> A sleigh-ride-to-hell story of how '60s hippie innocence turned into '80s megadepravity...finely researched, told with pizzazz. -- Kirkus Reviews <br>


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Bruce Porter, a former newspaper reporter and editor of Newsweek, teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Connoisseur, among other publications.

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