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The Greatest Adventure Ever Lived and Told
Roger Reaves built the smuggling routes the Medellin Cartel used to rise to prominence. He was flying high and creating trafficking routes before Pablo Escobar had a name outside Colombia. He escaped five times, got tortured twice, and kept his mouth shut through all of it. He didn’t write this book to clean up his past. He wrote it because no one else could. No co-author, no fluff, no spin — just the truth, start to finish, from the man who made it all happen.
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THE SMUGGLER
The Extraordinary True Story of Roger Reaves
FROM POOR FARM BOY TO THE WORLD’S MOST PROLIFIC DRUG SMUGGLER
A tale so extraordinary, it reads like fiction—but every word is true.
Roger Reaves grew up as a poor farm boy in Georgia, making moonshine to get by. What followed was the most incredible journey of adventure, danger, wealth, and survival ever documented.
THE GREATEST ADVENTURE EVER LIVED
For decades, Roger Reaves operated in the shadows as the premier smuggler for Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel. His exploits spanned:
Six continents – from Colombian jungles to Mexican deserts
Hundreds of missions – over 100 successful flights across the US border
Unimaginable wealth – amassing a $60 million fortune at his peak
Legendary connections – working directly with Pablo Escobar, Jorge Ochoa, and employing the infamous Barry Seal
This is not just another crime story—it’s a masterclass in survival against impossible odds:
Shot down twice by military jets in Colombia and Mexico
Escaped from prison five times across multiple continents
Tortured nearly to death in a Mexican prison
Served 33 years in 26 different prisons across 7 countries and 4 continents
Yet through it all, Roger Reaves maintained his humanity and ultimately found redemption.
A LIFE THAT DEFIES BELIEF
“I was shot down twice, I escaped from five different prisons, I was tortured almost to death in a Mexican prison…” —Roger Reaves
In a world where adventure stories are manufactured for entertainment, Roger Reaves lived the real thing. His firsthand account provides an unprecedented look inside the inner workings of the world’s most notorious drug cartel and the shadowy world of international smuggling.
Now, for the first time, the complete, unfiltered story is yours to experience.
THE SMUGGLER – The extraordinary true story of a man who lived life on his own terms, paid the ultimate price, and lived to tell the tale.
Available now in hardcover, paperback, and audiobook (narrated by Roger Reaves himself).
Reader Testimonials
What People are Saying about The Book, "the Smuggler"
"Wildest Life Story You Will Ever Read"
"He calls his book "a Memoir" and that is what it is. He has had the craziest life story you will ever read about. They say cats have nine lives this man must have had a hundred. He has a scar on his skull where a bullet grazed it, one on his cheek, and a missing big toe that was shot off. He almost died in several airplane incidents. You have to keep reading to see what is going to happen next."
Wild Ride and a Great Story
"Roger takes you through his wild, crazy, and dangerous life. His stories are super interesting and captivating. His attention to detail and ability to relay his story is impressive. Definitely get the audio book, as Roger’s voice and how he tells the story makes it even better (although you miss out on the pictures that the physical book has). Great book that is worth the time and money."
A Good Story Well Told
Roger Reaves is a good storyteller with a good story to tell--his life as an international drug smuggler, as he says, the most prolific of the 20th century. The reader is kept turning pages by vivid depictions of people, places, heart thumping exploits, and weather, the weather being a key factor when the author is flying home across borders overloaded and running low on fuel. The reader is there when Reaves crash lands in Columbia, is waylaid on foreign soil by authorities, and is tortured in prison. I'm not sure what it is exactly the good storytellers have, but whatever it is, Reaves has it in abundance. The book is the man. Obviously he has an excess of energy, ambition, bravado, daring, and no limits. Others may judge; I recommend Smuggler for the fun of it. Reading it added spice to my otherwise quiet, ordered life.
I Hope Netflix is Paying Attention
"'ve read a few such books, I enjoyed Traffic by Berkley Rice, and reading about George Jung's exploits and the movie about him, and a few others. Sort of lost interest in the matter, over the years. But I stumbled across a podcast on Youtube talking about the world's most prolific smuggler that you never heard of, and they were right, I hadn't, there was Roger Reaves. IMO, all others pale in comparison to this man's daring sense of adventure. Obviously a smart and and well-read man, but mixed in with some seriously foolhardy decisions along the way. After all the years he had already spent in the US prisons, all the times, dealing with the nincompoops, scoundrels and rascals, with some occasional competent and good people mixed in, the latter not being often, I was really surprised, he still wanted to make the Australian run."
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