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.