This book might indeed save your life. Survival schools. Second passports. Urban Escape and Evasion courses. CERT training. Bugging out. How to escape from attack dogs. Offshore asset protection. Perpetual traveling. Using one’s credit card as a knife. Killing and skinning your own goat. These are just some of the survivalist, “how-to-be-prepared-for-anything” topics covered in Neil Strauss’ latest, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life (2009). Neil Strauss is primar

The Independent | I couldn't believe classes like this even existed. In the last 48 hours, I'd learned to hot-wire a car, pick locks, conceal my identity, evade attack dogs, and escape from handcuffs, flexi-cuffs, duct tape, rope, and nearly every other type of restraint. The course was called Urban Escape and Evasion, which offered the type of instruction I'd been looking for to quell my anxieties about the headlines I read in the newspapers every day, threatening riots, terrorism, economic

Call it the Neil Strauss effect. Weeks before the bestselling author’s new book hit the streets, one of the preparedness classes he wrote about started seeing an uptick in registration. "Emergency," in stores today, is the name of the book. In it, Strauss channels his inner survivalist, taking dozens of emergency preparedness classes, including gun training, flight lessons, CPR and — the course that’s seeing the boost — Urban Escape and Evasion . Run by Kevin Reeve, who got a lot of ink