I purchased the book as a way to learn more about drug dealers. My life long dream was to become a police officer, so I have read many true crime books and autobiographies. Right now, my faith in God and being a Christian is in question. Yes, this book has a lot to do with faith. But its not a bible book by any means.
The true accounts and actions of were amazing and how a man who had done so much evil in his young life could be blessed and given a second chance is amazing to me.
I encourage everyone who has ever challenged their faith whatever denomination to read this book with an open mind.
I would and will recommend this book to who ever will listen.
An AWESOME book.

I could not believe how fast this book reads. I could not put it down. One of the most amazing books I read. The true life of a 20 year old cuban immigrant who becomes the US head of the powerful drug cartel. Offers hope to a hopeless world.

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.