Product Description

With the same sharp eye, quick wit and narrative drive that made "The Game" a bestseller, Neil Strauss takes us on a white-knuckle journey through America's heart of darkness as he scrambles to escape the system. As the economic downturn, continuing climate change and the prevailing terrorist threat prove that the dangers facing our world loom larger than ever, Strauss decides he's had enough. Soon he is investigating ways of getting second citizenship on the island of St. Kitts, protecting his assets offshore, and making friends with an elite group of billionaires who are thinking exactly the same thing. Strauss' thirst for survival becomes more extreme as he prepares for The End Of The World As We Know It. He trains with guns, learns American Indian tracking skills, hides caches of supplies and acquires a special forces motorcycle to help him 'bug out'. When The Shit Hits The Fan, this book might just save your life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19722 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Rolling Stone
The world is in crisis. If you're looking for an escape plan, this book is it.

Maxim
In Emergency, he manages to find the humor in an otherwise frightening time, with wit, wisdom and often hilarious repercussions.

About the Author
Neil Strauss is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Game and Rules of the Game. He is also the coauthor of three New York Times bestsellers - Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Motley Crue's The Dirt, and Marilyn Manson's The Long Hard Road Out of Hell - as well as Dave Navarro's Don't Try This at Home, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. A writer for Rolling Stone, Strauss lives in Los Angeles and can be found at www.neilstrauss.com.

Customer Reviews

In case of Emergency... Rely on yourself

I've met Neil, on his book tour in London, I'm a huge fan of his book The Game, raved about it to all my friends and have probably brought a dozen or so copies to hand out to friends. When I read it, for me, it had a certain resonance, as I read the stories about as i could understand and related to some ( not all!) of the scenarios that he wrote about. When reading the synopsis about this book, I felt that same. I had often thought about worst case scenarios, what would happen, what could happen and what would I do to survive. Not in an the world is going to end tomorrow outlook, but it's just a little thought at the back of my head in a corner of my mind. With the current state of the world, the economy and the uncertain times, I thought this book would at least be an interesting read.

Strauss's style of writing is easy to read, it certainly kept me hooked and I read it in less then a day. There seemed for me a disconnect between the Strauss of "The game" and the Strauss of this book. Over half the book is dedicated to him looking at ways of dual citizenship. It just seemed to me that he was running around like a headless chicken. The Strauss of the game immersed himself in his subject matter, he learnt from the best, stayed in their world, and took on board all the viewpoints to mesh together everything. This Neil Strauss is asking for lawyers to sort it out for him. He has high powered contacts, can make it to the White House, is in contact with celebs and billionaires and yet sits around trying to figure out how to make this happen? It just seemed to me completely incongruent with the things he had learnt as "Style" in The Game.

There are some interesting talks that he has with a couple of billionaires, and honestly I wished he'd expanded a little bit more about their world.

Long story cut short. He spends the rest of the time with survivalists and emergency responders learning how to live off the land, and generally not being scared by it all. That's pretty much it in a nutshell. I found some useful tips, but generally I had figured out most of it already. It's a strange book. Worth a read, would it save my life? Probably not. That's down to me, and I didn't need a book to tell me that.

Not like The Game
Emergency, I found had little really new or interesting information. In The Game, Straus revealed a whole unknown subculture of dedicated pick-up artists and skills they used. The Game was a coherent whole and a fascinating expose. In Emergency we know the characters from previous documentaries. Survivalists, for example have been covered in great depth. Likewise cryognics fans,wealthy tax exiles and doomsday groups. I felt that there was little genuinely new information to keep me interested.

Emergency - This Book Will Save You From Boredom
I'd never read any of the previous works of Neil Strauss so had no frame of reference for his writing style.

Emergency is one of those books I hated to put down even to go asleep. Neils writing style flows so, so well and I was entertained and even a bit horrified (in places - you'll understand when you read it) from start to finish.

Just a fantastic journal of somebody who goes on a quest for surviving the worst and becomes a better human being as part of it.