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Once a King, Always a King

The Unmaking of a Latin King

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Once a King, Always a King

By: Reymundo Sanchez
Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
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This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez's struggle to create a "normal" life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past.

Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto "once a king, always a king" rings true and details the difficulty and danger of leaving that life behind. Filled with heart-pounding scenes of his backslide into drugs, sex, and violence, Once a King, Always a King recounts how Sanchez wound up in prison and provides an engrossing firsthand account of how the Latin Kings are run from inside the prison system.

Harrowing testaments to Sanchez's determination to rebuild his life include his efforts to separate his family from gang life and his struggle to adapt to marriage and the corporate world. Despite temptations, nightmares, regressions into violence, and his own internal demons, Sanchez makes an uneasy peace with his new life.

This raw, powerful, and brutally honest memoir traces the transformation of an accomplished gang-banger into a responsible citizen.

©2003 Reymundo Sanchez (P)2017 Tantor Cultural & Regional True Crime Royalty Exciting
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This is an incredible book. The way the story unfold really holds my heart. I really feel for what this person went through and how he was able to turn his life around.

Well done ! I salute you

Amazing

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Possibly useful for sufferers of domestic violence to see that their perpetrator thinks only of themselves.

Domestic violence perpetrator managing to still be the victim.

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