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Summary: Riveting!!!
Review: I too could not put this book down! It has an awesome and inspiring message of hope! This book needs to be read by the young people in America who are being lured into the false trap of materialism. Someone, somebody, please, please make a motion picture out of this story! I know three people who also have read this true story and they too could not put the book down! Read this book for yourself and let the testimony of Christ's transforming power of Jorge Valdes' Life inspire you too!
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Summary: Riveting!!!
Review: I too could not put this book down! It has an awesome and inspiring message of hope! This book needs to be read by the young people in America who are being lured into the false trap of materialism. Someone, somebody, please, please make a motion picture out of this story! I know three people who also have read this true story and they too could not put the book down! Read this book for yourself and let the testimony of Christ's transforming power of Jorge Valdes' Life inspire you too!
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Summary: One of the Most Shocking and Intense Books ever Read
Review: This book was simply splendid, well worth the price! It is rare to find an autobiography as captivating as this one. I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Valdes and found him as inspiring as his book. Certainly God has used the unparalleled events in his life to lead Jorge and many others to Christ. Pick up a copy and hold on tight!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This book was simply splendid, well worth the price! It is rare to find an autobiography as captivating as this one. I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Valdes and found him as inspiring as his book. Certainly God has used the unparalleled events in his life to lead Jorge and many others to Christ. Pick up a copy and hold on tight!
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Summary: A compulsive memoir. Be prepared to lose a night's sleep!
Review: When I saw this book on the shelf at my local library, I assumed this would just be some preachy, manipulative work in which a drug dealer tries to make his past vanish by finding God. As a lapsed Catholic I found this concept rather weak, but I picked up the book with a (reasonably) open mind, and started reading.
By the time he was in his twenties Jorge Valdes was a cocaine dealer on the rise, dealing to the rich and famous, the living embodiment of wealth and power and luxury; leading a life most of us can imagine only in our wildest dreams. The life of the rich with all the negative excess that goes with it: drugs, pornography, prostitution, infidelity, murder, double-crosses, torture, kidnapping. Enough drama and suspense for a Robert Ludlum novel. The only difference is, this is the real deal. But, as Valdes soon disovers there is a price to all this; and he finds the courage and committment to steer his life onto a new, positive path.
Reading this stirred my intense interest in the good and evil that all human beings are capable of, what Karl Jung called "the shadow". Obviously some of the content of this book is tough to take (Especially Valdes' graphic account of him and an associate being tortured by police for refusing to leak info), but the honesty with which Valdes tells his story and the glimpse the reader gets into his former life makes for fascinating and sometimes horrific reading.
Even though I gave up my religious faith long ago, I still found myself moved by Mr Valdes's committment to his beliefs and how dramatically his life has changed for the better because of his faith. COMING CLEAN is quite simply a remarkable story. I challenge anyone to read this book and finish it without feeling affected. A very moving and powerful work that could only have come from the pen of someone who has lived and breathed the life... and survived to help prevent others from making the same mistakes he did.
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Summary: I Was Truly Touched
Review: While going through a difficult time in my life, I happened upon this book. This story of redemption is so powerful that it actually deepened my faith. I thought, "If this person can be changed through faith, then so can I." Since reading Coming Clean I have become more reliant on my faith and much more aware of my choices. This book was not only a thriller of a read, but a story that has mattered on a much deeper level for me.I would especially recommend this book for teens and college age readers who are under the constant assault of the immoral deadening messages of a society spun out of control with permissiveness and entitlement.
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Summary: I Was Truly Touched
Review: While going through a difficult time in my life, I happened upon this book. This story of redemption is so powerful that it actually deepened my faith. I thought, "If this person can be changed through faith, then so can I." Since reading Coming Clean I have become more reliant on my faith and much more aware of my choices. This book was not only a thriller of a read, but a story that has mattered on a much deeper level for me. I would especially recommend this book for teens and college age readers who are under the constant assault of the immoral deadening messages of a society spun out of control with permissiveness and entitlement.
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