Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life: A Former CIA Officer Reveals Safety and Survival Techniques to Keep You and Your Family Protected
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When Jason Hanson joined the CIA in 2003, he never imagined that the same tactics he used as a CIA officer for counter intelligence, surveillance, and protecting agency personnel would prove to be essential in every day civilian life.
In addition to escaping handcuffs, picking locks, and spotting when someone is telling a lie, he can improvise a self-defense weapon, pack a perfect emergency kit, and disappear off the grid if necessary. He has also honed his "positive awareness"--a heightened sense of his surroundings that allows him to spot suspicious and potentially dangerous behavior--on the street, in a taxi, at the airport, when dining out, or in any other situation.
In his engaging and empowering book Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Lifed, Jason shares this know-how with readers, revealing how to:
• prevent home invasions, carjackings, muggings, and other violent crimes
• run counter-surveillance and avoid becoming a soft target
• recognize common scams at home and abroad
• become a human lie detector in any setting, including business negotiations
• gain peace of mind by being prepared for anything instead of uninformed or afraid
With the skill of a trained operative and the relatability of a suburban dad, Jason Hanson brings his top-level training to everyday Americans in this must-have guide to staying safe in an increasingly dangerous world.
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Reviews for Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very interesting and informative highly recommend definitely worth a read
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Self defense tactics that I've never would think of. Great!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The whole book matures from the idea of awareness of your suroundings. And, it is a completely simple and fundamental concept but vital nonetheless.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a quick primer of Spy Secrets to help keep anyone safer. It’s full of interesting facts and techniques to use in your everyday life or on your next covert mission. Some of the highlights include how to escape if your hands are duct taped or zip tied together. Simple things are listed to do to help protect your home from invasion. The best ways to travel safely in any country, from air travel to taxi rides are discussed. There are interesting techniques to practice on how to defeat a lie detector test or an armed assailant. Some of these things are very simple, logical things you can do, while others are more in-depth requiring some degree of preparation and training. This is a good starter book on how to protect yourself and your loved ones in hazardous situations. The book is full of references to online videos, including both free demonstrations and sites to purchase supplies and tactical gear to help keep you one step ahead of trouble. Sometimes I got the impression my reading was being interrupted by commercials, but then I guess freedom really isn’t free. Book provided for review by the publisher and Goodreads.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll admit the cheese-factor of the title caught my eye, but it was this, from the summary, that made me put the book on my wishlist:In addition to escaping handcuffs, picking locks, and spotting when someone is telling a lie, he can improvise a self-defense weapon, pack a perfect emergency kit, and disappear off the grid if necessary. Ooh, practical skills knowledge! You know me, I'm always interested in learning new skills, even if I might never use them. As a practical handbook the book is chock-full of useful knowledge, both of the common sense and not-so-common sense variety and I'd recommend it to anyone. Some of it does come across sounding a tiny bit paranoid or back-woods survivalist, but that's really only because most of us live by the odds (as in, what are the odds of that happening?!). But as anyone who has been in a disaster would say, it only needs to happen once. Most of the best information in this book is about being aware of options and strategies. Oh, and learning how to pick locks; and escape duct tape and zip ties. You can never have too many skills, y'all. A couple of things dimmed the appeal. There's an ever so slight prevalence of self-promotion. It's never blatant, but the few sources he supplies are, I think, his own websites (and to be fair, not to sell anything - videos and freebies). He does tell you what brands of deadbolts are better than others (Kwikset = bad) as well as a few other recommendations of what to look for in security. But there's a bit too much "I" for my personal tastes. I don't know who is running the editing circus at Penguin, but Hanson should be pissed. There are more than a few silly, embarrassing errors throughout the text that a primary school kid could catch. As a last note, if the sub-title doesn't give it away, this book is primarily aimed at Americans, although some of the stats are international and all of the skills and strategies are applicable to everyone. But Hanson loves his guns (he doesn't advocate owning them though). Look past that though and you'll find a lot of everyday, practical advice for keeping yourself and your loved ones safer.
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