Bound by Blood: My Journey from the Mob to the Master

Edmundo Ramirez became a made man by putting in work for his masters in the gang-controlled neighborhoods of northeast Los Angeles and the jails and prisons of California, shooting and stabbing his way to the top. His street name Bala—Spanish for Bullet—reflected his willingness to use powder and lead in his climb up the corporate crime ladder. For 30 years he served a higher power that did not care about him. He became a made man for that higher power, but what he really needed was to be remade by the true Higher Power, God.Bound by Blood tells the amazing story of how a man who didn’t believe in the power of God, but did believe in the power of bullets, became a missionary and anger-management counselor, helping others escape a life of crime.