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When Violence Is the Answer: Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is at Stake

In a civilized society, violence is rarely the answer. But when it is-it's the onlyanswer.

The sound of breaking glass downstairs in the middle of the night.

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The words, "Move and you die."

The hands on your child, or the knife to your throat.

In this essential new book, self-protection expert and former military intelligence officer Tim Larkin changes the way we think about violence in order to save our lives. By deconstructing our assumptions about violence-its morality, its function in modern society, how it actually works-Larkin unlocks the shackles of our own taboos and arms us with what we need to know to prevent, prepare for, and survive the unthinkable event of life-or-death violence. Through a series of harrowing true-life stories, Larkin demonstrates that violence is a tool equally effective in the hands of the "bad guy" or the "good guy"; that the person who acts first, fastest and with the full force of their body is the one who survives; and that each and every one of us is capable of being that person when our lives are at stake.

An indispensable resource, When Violence is the Answerwill remain with you long after you've finished reading, as the bedrock of your self-protection skills and knowledge.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages

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