My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King

Reymundo Sanchez

Apr 2007 · Chicago Review Press

About this ebook

Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex, and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and powerful odyssey through the ranks of the new mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs are members of your own gang, who in one breath will say they'll die for you and in the next will order your assassination.

Ratings and reviews

Second time I've read and still soooo So gripping couldn't put it down, if the story is true start to finish this man had a hard life full of despair and sorrows all too common path walked by kids in the barrio

I first discovered "My Bloody Life" when I was 14, I was ditching summerschool. Slowly withdrawaling myself from school and would read it in a park from 8 to 12 just me, some cigarettes, and the words on the page, the words becoming a script as I would imagine vividly, what the main character "Reymundo" would see and feel the tension, wrath, euphoria, optimism, and melancholy in certain sections of the book. This wasn't my life at all but there was something I related to deeply by the end of it, maybe the alter ego between who he is and who he was that is the slight similiraty, the peacekeeper and the bomb who raises hell when the fuse is lit. Overall this is an extrodinary book, with a neccesary continuation. I hope you read the masterpiece of "My Bloody Life" and alters your point of view on the world and have gratitude for your life and the people that care about you. Than again I obtained the book to have some sort of time-killer and entertainment, not find a parallelism. 24/10

Second time I read the book and it's still as good as before. I lived about 20 miles from the city of Chicago all my life and have seen some of this violence first hand this book is an eye opener

About the author

Reymundo Sanchez is the pseudonym of a former Latin King who no longer lives in Chicago.