Mike's family has lost everything; the government took it all. His father was a drug lord who was brutally murdered at gunpoint. His mother is a neglectful seductress who wanted more from life. His father's replacement is an abusive, highly religious anti-white racist who hates Mike's interracial heritage and European cultural influences.

He is a child who lives with the stigma of homelessness, asthma, mutilation by flesh-eating bacteria, and a weak undernourished body. He is without any friends...except for one that he creates with his imagination.

The future looks bleak for him, but all hope is not lost; Mike was born with a gift. Besides many unlikely talents, he has the uncommon willpower needed to accomplish his dream: to become a United States Navy SEAL.

At first, you may not like him as a person; he's a rebel, an antihero, a maverick who lives by his own code of honor and tells truths that no one wants to hear. But he when he loves, he loves deeply, so passionately that he'd be willing to sacrifice anything for the woman in his heart.

Fighting for Redemption is an inspirational and true coming-of-age story, recommended to anyone who believes that the imagination can be used to overcome great trials and tribulations of the mind and spirit, such as suicidal depression, crises of identity, losses of sanity, heartbreak, feelings of isolation and exile, the desire to harm oneself, child abuse, and extreme poverty.

Do video-games and movies truly force us to enact violence and forms of culturally defined immorality? Or is there more to us than simply what our environment tells us to become? Can we beat extreme odds and statistics that weigh against us by tapping into the deepest part of our subconscious minds?

The story of Mike's journey sheds some insight into the answers. Discover them.

Nonfiction/Memoir.