Ramon Salazar tells his readers about how he grew up, started to do drugs, become involved in gang activity, and was institutionalized at a young age. This lifestyle at first seemed to bring him temporary satisfactions with drugs, money, and women but it also brought along struggles, pain, and tragedies. Escaping a life of eternity in hell behind a p.c.p overdose, a life sentence in prison under California's three strikes law, Ray, points out how Gods mercy has "Pardoned" him of his past and now uses him to minister in jail and mentor the at risk youth.