Publisher's Synopsis
In the mid-1970s, George Jung, former high school football star and hippie, met Carlos Lehder, psychopath and admirer of John Lennon, Hitler and Che Guevara. They were both doing time for drug dealing. The two men began one of the most profitable partnerships in history by turning the smuggling of cocaine, then a scarce luxury commodity into an unimaginably lucrative mass industry. By teaming up with Pablo Escobar of the tightly-knit Columbian Medellin cartel, they supplied more than 80% of the cocaine to the US for the next 15 years and grossed nearly $35 billion a year.;In this book, Bruce Porter shows how Jung, who was his principal source for the book, created a business that went from a modest suitcase stash to one that could have placed sixth on the Fortune 500 list. Through Jung, the reader becomes privy to the inner workings of the organization, witnessing high life and high jinks in the daily operations of the rich and powerful Medellin drug cartel.
