Emergency : : This Book Will Save Your Life

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Combining wit and journalistic detail, Emergency follows Strauss' search for an escape plan from the seemingly ever-more unstable United States and world, eventually obtaining a second citizenship in a small Caribbean island. Facing shady lawyers, cult leaders, crippling doubts, governmental corruption, and plane-flying, gun-toting billionaires along the way, Strauss casts light upon today's heart of darkness and learns the skills it seems are needed to be a true survivor in this brave new world.--Border's UK website.

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Fun, and a good read,...but also a bit self-indulgent? submitted by hathaway1066 on July 22, 2013, 9:38pm Strauss has a pattern (in the two books of his that I've read) of describing his own journey into a subculture of some compelling nature. 'Emergency!' follows that pattern with Strauss leading the reader to ever more involved degrees of prepping for a disaster. There is a bit of prepper-mentality paranoia to his outlook (he goes as far as obtaining dual citizenship through a rather involved process) but there is a redeeming aspect as well: he joins a C.E.R.T. (Community Emergency Response Team), ostensibly to gain the credentials and ability to move out about within/out of a disaster struck area, but he ends up working an actual disaster and seeing the need for maintaining the fabric of a community through such acts rather than looking only to one's own self interests and hiding with a stockpile of ammo and beef jerky.

A good read for any looking for 'prepper' literature or fans of Strauss, or of disaster literature.