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Once a King, Always a King

The Unmaking of a Latin King

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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 Exciting
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After listening to his first book “my bloody life”. Then this one. I can’t believe everything that went wrong in his life he put down to his mother.(who was a scumbag). But to rape young girls at 12 and pass it off as ‘she wanted it as much as me’ is not on. He says he’s changed but I have the feeling he never will.
Two brilliant books though. Would definitely recommend. And judge for yourself

Reymundo

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