Emergency

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.

As America falls apart around him, Strauss prepares for The End of the World As We Know It. He learns to shoot a man and get away with it, studies Native American tracking skills, buries caches of supplies deep in the forest, gets trained in emergency medicine, studies lock-picking and car-hotwiring, engages in a test run of the apocalypse, rescues victims from a train crash, and, in the process, becomes—for better or worse—a completely different person.

It’s one man’s story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it.

Praise for Emergency:

‘The world is in crisis. If you’re looking for an escape plan, this book is it.’

Rolling Stone

‘Documents Strauss’s journey from latte-sipping city boy to steely-eyed survivalist, a journey in which he learns to kill a man with his bare hands, studies native American tracking skills, buries caches of supplies in the forest and basically readies himself for everything from a biological catastrophe to a stubbed toe…Strauss’s book is good fun, written with dystopian black humour and a febrile sense of impending doom. There are plenty of helpful photos…plus graphic novel-style illustrations that explain everything from evasive driving skills to how to turn your credit card into a knife.’

Sydney Morning Herald

‘A sprawling, rambling beast of a book…Strauss learns a lesson along the way: how to be useful to others, as well as how to save himself. If you have seen the future and it looks like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, you might want to read this book,’

Age