Readers will find themselves either feeling sympathetic over Larry’s plight or totally appalled by it.

From the Guttermost to the Uttermost is a remarkable story and first-hand report about the power of the human spirit to overcome adversities and turn a turbulent past into an orderly lifestyle.

The author, Ron Larry, a native Detroiter writes an unexaggerated account of how he was raised on the mean streets of the ghettos and how he dealt with an addiction which was sure to take him to his grave.

With street-wise terms Larry tells of how his troubled childhood and early incarcerations became a full-blown cross-addicted life. While always staying somewhere betwixt and between popping, drinking, snorting himself half-way between paradise and self-murder, it leaves one to wonder, is the young man ever going to survive his escapades?

Readers will find themselves either feeling sympathetic over Larry’s plight or totally appalled by it. From the Guttermost to the Uttermost shows some behaviourisms that are uncommon to the average person. There are gory details of how "pulled-in" one can easily get into the drug scene, thus leading to webs of criminal activities. It is also astonishing to read about the many dangers, toils, and snares which one can encounter.

Guttermost could not be invented or imagined, only experienced by one in hope of a Godly solution. For the past 21 years, however, Larry has run a prison ministry and has counselled scores of both male and female inmates. His story has been produced by Unshackled at Pacific Garden Missions in Chicago. He speaks across the USA and has spoken in Belle Vista prison in Medellin, Columbia, South America.