A Guide To Recognising Your Saints: A Memoir
by Dito Montiel

Dito Montiel’s life, from street gangbanger to million-dollar record deal destroyer, grabbed the infamous Robert Downey Jr sufficiently enough to turn it into a movie, with himself playing the author. Montiels’s rollercoaster ride of street characters, spiritual experiences and hilarious scrapes are set against a charged, romantic backdrop of New York City before the 80s yuppies moved in, from the East Village drug scene to Times Square at its sleazy peak. His ‘saints’ are those people he encountered who had a part in shaping his life, from hardened gang warriors, to