The last standing member of the so-called "Cocaine Cowboys" just recorded a spoken-word album of his memories, sharing some of the extraordinary tales from his six years as a drugs-runner for Escobar - a career that ultimately landed him behind bars for much of the 1990s.

"When I was doing what I was doing, then I was a ghost - nobody knows me, nobody sees me," he told The Sunday Telegraph. "But now people come to me all the time for stories. I served my time, the world's moved on, so why not? I guess you could say I'm a raconteur of history."

Munday earned up to $2.5 million a flight running drugs between Colombia and Florida from 1980 to 1986, a period in which the Medellin cartel trafficked an estimated $38 billion worth of cocaine. With him in charge of transport operations, working under Escobar's Miami point-man Max Mermelstein, the cartel became a powerhouse that accounted for 80 per cent of the US cocaine market.

As the drugs poured in, the streets of Miami exploded with violent turf wars - a bloody era that took so many lives that the city morgue could not keep pace with processing the bodies.

A maverick who taught himself to fly and never even held a pilot's licence, Munday's task was to literally fly under the radar, evading the combined might of US law enforcement agencies with methods so resourceful that his paymasters later nicknamed him "MacGyver" after the fictitious television secret agent.

The US government's eventual indictment against him spoke of the Munday Organisation's development and use of "sophisticated electronic equipment" to monitor and eavesdrop on law enforcement, remote-controlled electronic beacons that were placed with drugs to guide pick-up boats to their location, night-vision goggles, radar detectors, infra-red devices and radios that scrambled communications.

Yet one of Munday's favourite stories is of the time that he outwitted a US Customs patrol over Florida by simply flying too slow for them to catch him.

"My plane can do like 200mph and theirs about 500mph. So I can't out-run them, but I can out-slow them - they can't go slower than 120mph but I can get right down to 85mph," he explains.

"It hadn't occurred to them that high-tech doesn't always win you the game."