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Untwisted

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By the time Serge LeClerc was arrested for masterminding a $40 million narcotics lab in 1984, he was already on the RCMP's Most Wanted List. His crimes were many. Theft. Fraud. Drug smuggling. Armed robbery. Racketeering. Bank heists. Connections to the top Mafia families.Born of rape to a teenage girl in an abandoned building, LeClerc's life of crime began at the age of eight and escalated to the point where he was one of Canada's most violent and notorious criminals. Untwisted unfolds his startling life and times from the mean streets of the Projects and inner-city Toronto, to the cell blocks and solitary confinement cells of super-maximum security prisons, to a dramatic life transformation.Poignant and raw, this unique and compelling story of crime and punishment, redemption and overcoming will keep you riveted from beginning to end.

213 pages, Softcover

First published January 1, 2007

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December 6, 2020
This should be republished. We lost a great guy far too soon. Highly recommend this truly amazing, true story of redemption in our modern era. Very amazing story of a redeemed life!
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November 24, 2020
Serge was my Big Brother a Man among men. Every thing I am as a man is due to his tutelage
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December 15, 2020
An absolutely amazing story of redemption!

The book is, sadly, out of print but I was able to buy a used copy from Amazon.ca and I am SO glad I did!

Wow! To see where he was and where he ended up, to see the country-wide influence and change he was a part of, is a legacy that continues even today.

Hit the used book stores, garage sales, online forums, the attic, whatever.... This is a MUST READ! for anyone.
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April 14, 2009
Serge LeClerc spoke at a Teacher's Institute in Feb, 2009, in Regina, SK, and this is where I first heard of him, though he had been infamous in both positive and negative ways long before that. I had been amazed with his life story and got a personal copy of his book and the chance to speak with him. He is the only person in Canadian history to have received a full pardon for his life of crime, based on the sincerity of his post-criminal transformation. He has transformed his life and now works with many government and private agencies and helping young adults and offenders break free of their own cycles. It is an amazing story. His life events and the honesty with which he describes them is disturbing. His story of transformation is a must read and one that will provoke emotion and discussion on various levels!
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January 10, 2011
What an amazing story! This autobiography tells about LeClerc's life in and out of prisons, being on the RCMP's Most Wanted List, running million dollar drug operations, to giving his life to God and helping young kids heading down the same path he was. Also interesting to learn about some of what goes on in prisons, the hierarchies, and how everything about prisons and convicts changed after the Charter of Rights was put into place, not positively.
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August 29, 2009
It has long been my contention that if so-called "master criminals" would put as much time, effort and conviction into ethical businesses as they do into bending and breaking the law, the world would be a much better place and this book proves my point.
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December 21, 2012
Hard book to read for I lived thourgh his era. Sorry I did not get a chance to meet him but had the opportunity to talk with him.
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December 4, 2023
Highly recommended, one of the best autobiography I’ve ever read.
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February 11, 2013
I loved this book until all the god stuff.... If he would have found the power to overcome all those obstacles himself, that REALLY would have been something.
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