Emergency
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- $20.99
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
Before The End of the World As We Know It, you're going to want to read this book. Because tomorrow doesn't come with a guarantee...
After the last few years of violence and terror, of ethnic and religious hatred, of tsunamis, hurricanes and financial meltdown, Neil Strauss, author of The Game, came to the sobering realisation that anything can happen.
Safety and survival are not certainties-so he did something about it. Strauss spent three years learning the skills necessary to save himself and his loved ones from an uncertain future.
Emergency traces Neil's white-knuckled journey through today's heart of darkness, as he sets out to move his life offshore, test his skills in the wild and remake himself as a gun-toting, plane-flying, government-defying survivor. It's a tale of paranoid fantasies and crippling doubts, of shady lawyers and dangerous cult leaders, of billionaire gun nuts and survivalist superheroes, of weirdos, heroes, and ordinary citizens going off the grid. It's one man's story of a dangerous world and how to stay alive in it.
'A sprawling, rambling beast of a book.' Age
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The controversial author of The Game is back with a safer of sorts guide. With the U.S. threatened from within and without (e.g., swine flu, all sorts of religious extremists, subprime mortgages), the author takes three years of wilderness survival and lock-picking classes in an effort to learn how to survive anything from online hackers to terrorist plots. Witty, self-deprecating, and full of weird tips (how to fashion your credit card into a knife), the book is done justice by Strauss s careful reading. The pacing is purposeful and Strauss s youthful tone is flush with humor alongside a steady emphasis on the key ideas. A HarperCollins/It hardcover.