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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

Once a King, Always a King

The Unmaking of a Latin King

by (author) Reymundo Sanchez

Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2004
Category
Personal Memoirs, Criminals & Outlaws
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781569762356
    Publish Date
    Oct 2004
    List Price
    $16.99
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781556525056
    Publish Date
    Oct 2003
    List Price
    $37.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781556525537
    Publish Date
    Oct 2004
    List Price
    $18.95

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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 behind bars 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 gangbanger into a responsible citizen.

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