"Miracle from Hell!" is a gripping, grisly, true account of a Mexican boy's life as a Devil's pawn. Luis Ortega's trials-attributed to a family "curse"-flavor and color every word, taking you deep into an eerie morass of unmitigated malice. You smell, taste, hear and feel the foul names, the grime, the stink, the hunger, the pain, and the pleasure. You struggle with him during his fight to survive. You suffer his early sexual exploitation by his brothers, predators and himself. You indulge with him his atrocities. You bemoan his father's murder as well as his mother's, sisters' and brothers' extraordinary degradation. You are at his side as he makes his steady descent into the hell hole of a homeless society's dregs. For Ortega and his family no perversion is too "far out. "No cruelty is beyond his capacity to inflict; sustain, or enjoy. Setting aside individual rights and freedoms, Ortega challenges God and the Devil, embraces the supernatural, and-finally, against all odds-lifts himself upward by his own bootstraps, and onward toward the light. Miracle from Hell! Thus dips into unimaginable squalor. It thrills and chills as it takes its reader full circle, from the very depths of despair to the heights of positive accomplishment, from atheism to a devout belief in a supreme deity, and achieves it all by brushing elbows with the Devil, himself-a true "Miracle from Hell!"