{"product_id":"the-big-hustle-a-boston-street-kids-story-of-addiction-and-redemption","title":"The Big Hustle: A Boston Street Kid's Story of Addiction and Redemption","description":"When Jim Wahlberg went to prison the second time at 22 years old, he was sentenced to six to nine years for breaking and entering, bargained down from life for home invasion. He had staggered into a Boston cop's apartment, helping himself to the sellable stuff and all the beer in the fridge. The cop came home, found Jim passed out at the kitchen table, beat the hell out of him, and arrested him.\nBut Wahlberg, a 130-pound kid from Dorchester, had learned some things from his life on the street and his first prison sentence. He knew how to survive. And he knew that if he wanted to avoid serving the full sentence, he would have to do something.\nHe did what he was best at: He hustled. He would create the illusion that he was trying to change, that he'd become the model prisoner, not a guy hell-bent on getting out while he was still young enough to drink more, steal more, and do more drugs.\nHe didn't know, though, that the Catholic priest he was trying to hustle was actually hustling him.\nThe Big Hustle is the story of a redeemed life and a family's healing. This is the no-holds-barred, unvarnished, and sometimes brutal true story of Jim Wahlberg, the fifth of nine kids growing up in a working-class Irish Catholic neighborhood outside of Boston, hustling for attention any way he could get it, which led him to the biggest hustle of his life. Against all odds he got clean, he got out, and he got the girl. Jim dedicated his new life as a former addict to working with addicts, and for years has spread the word that recovery is possible.\nBut nothing could have prepared him for what came next. His discovery that his own son was an addict threw Jim into a crisis--one that led him deeper into his faith and led to healing he never thought possible. This book is a testament to God's power and an invitation to all of us to hope in the darkest places.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1681926032\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1681926032.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Wahlberg, Jim|Caviezel, James\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41446853247034,"sku":"DBV.1681926032.VG","price":5.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1681926032-0.jpg?v=1780709693","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-big-hustle-a-boston-street-kids-story-of-addiction-and-redemption","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}