Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

Neil Strauss

May 2012 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation.

What can you do when it all hits the fan?

You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system.

"I've started to look at the world through apocalypse eyes." So begins Neil Strauss's harrowing new book: his first full-length work since the international bestseller The Game, and one of the most original-and provocative-narratives of the year.

After the last few years of violence and terror, of ethnic and religious hatred, of tsunamis and hurricanes–and now of world financial meltdown–Strauss, like most of his generation, came to the sobering realization that, even in America, anything can happen. But rather than watch helplessly, he decided to do something about it. And so he spent three years traveling through a country that's lost its sense of safety, equipping himself with the tools necessary to save himself and his loved ones from an uncertain future.

With the same quick wit and eye for cultural trends that marked The Game, The Dirt, and How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, 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.

Before the next disaster strikes, you're going to want to read this book. And you'll want to do everything it suggests. Because tomorrow doesn't come with a guarantee...

Ratings and reviews

Awareness is what this book has impacted into me in a great way. After reading this I feel very safe in an unexpected emergency. Someone had to research and spend time perfecting the survival skills to write this book for US to read and learn from without having to go through what he had to do to acquire this informative book. The most important information I received from this is most of these situations that posed us a threat yearz ago, will never ever happen to most people on the planet. These threats

Let's summarise: 1. Fear Mongering (FUD) - check 2. Rich author doing things ordinary person cannot - check 3. Sensationalism to sell books (see 2.) - check 4. Appeal to paranoia and conspiracy - check 5. Building toward a better future v. hiding - uh, no. Missed the memo. 6. While I'm not saying disasters don't happen and preparation is unnecessary, there are also common emotional responses which don't help. From the description, (What else am I to go on?) this appears to be the latter.

When I finished this book, felt like I had just been un-jacked from my first matrix simulation.

About the author

NEIL STRAUSS is an award-winning writer for Rolling Stone and the author or coauthor of ten New York Times bestsellers. He splits his time between Los Angeles and wherever the Jonas Brothers are.