Worst Case Scenario

How to Escape from Quicksand, Wrestle an Alligator, Break Down a Door, Land a Plane...

By: David Borgenicht, Joshua Piven

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Paperback | 31 May 2025 | Edition Number 1

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Danger It lurks at every corner. Volcanoes. Sharks. Quicksand. Terrorists. The pilot of the plane blacks out and it's up to you to land the jet. What do you do? "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook" is here to help: jam-packed with how-to, hands-on, step-by-step, illustrated instructions on everything you need to know FAST-from defusing a bomb to delivering a baby in the back of a cab. Providing frightening and funny real information in the best-selling tradition of the "Paranoid's Pocket Guide" and "Hypochondriac's Handbook, " this indispensable, indestructible pocket-sized guide is the definitive handbook for those times when life takes a sudden turn for the worse. The essential companion for a perilous age. Because you never know...

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Nearly 180 pages of immediate-action drills for when everything goes to hell in a handbasket (SOF editors all keep a copy on their desk at all times). Succinct overviews and pity, practical courses of action from legion experts-in-their-fields, to fight Murphy at least to a draw. Aficionados in some fields might quibble over certain techniques, but for the amount of ground this compact volume covers in dealing with dozens and dozens of worst-case scenarios in common-sense fashion, it's well worth having. Odds are good you'll meet more than one of the situation during your life, and the time spent studying this volume may turn out to be some the best time you ever invest. If nothing else, it makes you think out your options beforehand, so you have a plan.

Those with deep-seated fears about killer bees, quicksand, mountain lions and sharks will enjoy The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht, a handy little book for the extremely prepared that is climbing the best-seller list. This is a no-nonsense, no-fooling around guide with straightforward information. But fear not: The authors have enough perspective to acknowledge the campy appeal of an armchair guide for the anxious. "We thought it would be funny to people," Borgenicht says. They were, he says, "inspired by pop culture as much as by paranoia most of the scenarios we talk about were a TV or a movie scene." Sharks, the authors say, scared both of them to pieces in childhood. Blame it on Jaws.

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Foreword	p. 9
Preface	p. 14
Great Escapes and Entrances	p. 17
How to Escape from Quicksand	p. 18
How to Break Down a Door	p. 20
How to Break into a Car	p. 24
How to Hot-wire a Car	p. 28
How to Perform a Fast 180-Degree Turn with Your Car	p. 31
How to Ram a Car	p. 34
How to Escape from a Sinking Car	p. 36
How to Deal with a Downed Power Line	p. 39
The Best Defense	p. 41
How to Survive a Poisonous Snake Attack	p. 42
How to Fend Off a Shark	p. 46
How to Escape from a Bear	p. 50
How to Escape from a Mountain Lion	p. 54
How to Wrestle Free from an Alligator	p. 57
How to Escape from Killer Bees	p. 60
How to Deal with a Charging Bull	p. 64
How to Win a Sword Fight	p. 66
How to Take a Punch	p. 69
Leaps of Faith	p. 73
How to Jump from a Bridge or Cliff into a River	p. 74
How to Jump from a Building into a Dumpster	p. 77
How to Maneuver on Top of a Moving Train and Get Inside	p. 79
How to Jump from a Moving Car	p. 82
How to Leap from a Motorcycle to a Car	p. 84
Emergencies	p. 87
How to Perform a Tracheotomy	p. 88
How to Use a Defibrillator to Restore a Heartbeat	p. 91
How to Identify a Bomb	p. 94
How to Deliver a Baby in a Taxicab	p. 99
How to Treat Frostbite	p. 103
How to Treat a Leg Fracture	p. 106
How to Treat a Bullet or Knife Wound	p. 109
Adventure Survival	p. 113
How to Land a Plane	p. 114
How to Survive an Earthquake	p. 120
How to Survive Adrift at Sea	p. 125
How to Survive When Lost in the Desert	p. 129
How to Survive If Your Parachute Fails to Open	p. 137
How to Survive an Avalanche	p. 140
How to Survive If You Are in the Line of Gunfire	p. 143
How to Survive When Lost in the Mountains	p. 146
How to Make Fire Without Matches	p. 150
How to Avoid Being Struck by Lightning	p. 155
How to Get to the Surface If Your Scuba Tank Runs Out of Air	p. 160
The Experts	p. 163
About the Authors	p. 176
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