He helped take thousands of crime guns off the street and became one of the most successful informants in ATF history.

And then the system that he risked everything for turned on him.

So the question has to be asked was Raycon a hero or just simply a pawn in a system that ends up cannibalizing its own.

Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Walton.

Well, what's up, STS Nation?

Welcome to Survive and Survivor.

This is the global phenomenon bringing you the very best guests in all true crime.

We've got more than 50 countries represented in our amazing community.

And tonight, it's a story that in the news business is, uh,

sounds almost cliche,

like it could be part of a Hollywood script,

but every once in a while,

cliches turned out to be actually more real than fiction.

In this case,

that is what is going on here.

Uh,

this is a story about a guy named Ray Khan.

He was a failed police hopeful from India.

His father was a police officer in India, I think, for the national police.

He couldn't make it as a police officer in India.

He comes to the United States.

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