author : Joshua Piven

I’m not entirely sure of the point of this book. It contains lots of (good, I assume) advice about what to do in certain unfortunate situations. But, of course, to act on this advice one would have to train, in order to be able to perform the required actions, or even just to remember what those actions are. If any of these things does happen to me, the best I’ll manage is to think: “oh yes, there’s something I should do in these circumstances; now, what was it?”

I skimmed through this before going on an overseas trip. Like its earlier companion volume, I’m not sure of the point of this. I again assume the advice is good (although I do wonder how the authors tested their advice on “How to foil a UFO abduction”…), but again, I’m sure if any of the related situations happens to me, I’ll either have forgotten the advice, or not be able to implement it sufficiently smoothly to work.