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The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Up with the Indiana Joneses For everyone who's ever wanted to be as smooth as James Bond, as clever as Captain Kirk, or as tough as Charlie's Angels, The Action Hero's Handbook is the ultimate guide to the essential skills every action hero needs to survive and thrive in this dangerous but exciting world. This book features dozens of real-life action hero techniques, directly from experts in the subjects at hand: FBI agents, sexologists, stuntmen, hypnotists, karate masters, criminologists, detectives, and many others. Learn how to: * Catch a great white shark * Deliver the Vulcan Nerve Pinch * Spyproof your hotel room * Win a fight when outnumbered * Climb down Mount Rushmore National Monument And dozens of other Good Guy Skills, Paranormal Skills, Fighting Skills, and Escape Skills. With meticulously researched step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow illustrations, The Action Hero's Handbook will get you ready for anything. Good luck--we're all counting on you.… (more)
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Hmmmm?
The concept here is amusing: take concepts from James Bond/cop movies/scifi and explain how it's done in actual practice. Sure, some of them are fanciful, like how to rappel down
The problems here are twofold:
1) The information is bland. It's stuff most anyone would know by watching TV or movies. I wanted nitty-gritty, or extra insight into the process. This might have worked if the material was funny, but...
2) It wasn't funny.
I'm glad I paid 50 cents for this, and that the money went for charity. At least my purchase did some good.
The book offers instruction on how to do a number of things that will prove important in your crime fighting lifestyle. Who doesn't need to know how
A handy reference book using advice from experts in their field. If you ever find yourself in these strange situations, this would be a good book to have by your side.