TY - BOOK AU - Strauss, Neil. AU - Neil Strauss. TI - Emergency: : this book will save your life SN - 9780060898779 U1 - 973.93 STR PY - 2009/// CY - , New York PB - Harper KW - Autosuffisance (Style de vie) KW - Civilization KW - Humour N1 - Orientation Five steps Escape Survive Rescue N2 - I've started to look at the world through apocalypse eyes." After the last few years of violence and terror, of ethnic and religious hatred, of tsunamis and hurricanes -- and now of world financial meltdown -- Neil 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. 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 ER -