| First of all, the cover for this book is one of the | | | | 'how to fire a weapon'). Strauss also takes it upon |
| best book covers I've ever seen. It's part | | | | himself to prepare his home for the event of a |
| fire-alarm, part emergency plan cards (the kind | | | | disaster, and the outcome is a fairly comical one. |
| that you'd find on a plane). The book is basically | | | | In addition to this, he tries to get a second |
| the story of author Neil Strauss, as he attempts | | | | passport (for the Cayman Islands) so that if need |
| to prepare himself to the apparently oncoming | | | | be, he could leave the United States. |
| apocalypse. By it through nuclear war, terrorist | | | | The book is very well written (as you'd expect |
| attacks or through some kind of natural disaster, | | | | from such a high-profile author) and you really get |
| Strauss is convinced that in the near-future the | | | | a sense of Strauss' outlook. By the end of the |
| world won't be the stable, secure place that it is | | | | book I was too thinking about preparing for some |
| today, and he'll need to take action in order to | | | | kind of apocalypse, and that is a testament to his |
| stay alive. | | | | involved and engrossing writing. One of the more |
| Throughout the book Strauss takes various | | | | interesting sections of the book is when he |
| courses in survival (such as 'how to kill and eat a | | | | infiltrates a society of like-minded people, which |
| wild goat', 'how to sneak through a city | | | | has simply got to be read to be believed. |
| undetected', 'how to live in the wilderness' and | | | | |