Buccaneer: The Provocative Odyssey of Jack Reed, Adventurer, Drug Smuggler & Pilot Extraordinaire

This is the stimulating, true account of the life of Jack Reed, an All-American boy turned drug smuggler; turned Robinson Crusoe, then infamous prison inmate. For the first time, Jack Reed discovers his extraordinary, tabooed journey as a high flying international cocaine smuggler and personal pilot for Carlos Lehder, partner to Pablo Escobar of the infamous Medellin Cartel. Reed flew drug runs for Lehder who handled transportation, while Columbian drug lord Escobar handled production and supply Lehder’s cocaine transport empire was based at Norman’s Cay, an out island 210 miles off the Florida coast in the Bahamas. Having gained notoriety in the late 70s as a staging point for drug smuggling, Norman’s Cay was immortalised in Blow , a 2001 motion picture starring Johnny Depp.