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. Mafia Cop: The Two Families of Michael Palermo Saints Only Live in Heaven Kindle Edition by Richard Cagan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 29 ratings Kindle 1.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. He planned to bring down with him one of the biggest cartel figures ever caught.

But George wasn't about to go down alone. The ride came to a screeching halt when DEA agents and Florida police busted Jung with 300 kilos of coke, effectively unraveling his fortune.

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 account of an Italian-American police officer whose friends included both law enforcement officials and wise guys in 1960s-era New York City. 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. 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.

Mafia Cop by Richard Stanley Cagan