Tim Larkin. (2017). When Violence Is the Answer: Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is at Stake. Unabridged Hachette Audio.

Tim Larkin. 2017. When Violence Is the Answer: Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is At Stake. Hachette Audio.

Tim Larkin, When Violence Is the Answer: Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is At Stake. Hachette Audio, 2017.

Tim Larkin. When Violence Is the Answer: Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is At Stake. Unabridged Hachette Audio, 2017.

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This book could save your life: Protect yourself from violence and learn survival skills for dangerous situations with this essential guide from a former military intelligence officer.
In a civilized society, violence is rarely the answer. But when it is, it's the only answer. The sound of breaking glass downstairs in the middle of the night. The words, "Move and you die." The hands on your child, or the knife to your throat.
In this essential 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 Answer will remain with you long after you've finished reading, as the bedrock of your self-protection skills and knowledge.

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     July 15, 2017
     "That one time when violence is the answer, make no mistake, it will be the only answer"--a timely survival manual for life in a strange era.Violence is always the last resort. That said, given a time of slashers on city buses, shooters in the streets, and a politics of division and hatred, to say nothing of the usual mashers and bullies, it's useful to know how to take down a threat. The necessary precondition, writes security expert and former military intelligence officer Larkin (Survive the Unthinkable: A Total Guide to Women's Self-Protection, 2013), is what might be called situational awareness. "Listening to music full blast and staring into the abyss of our never-ending Facebook news feed effectively makes us deaf and blind," he writes, and eminently vulnerable to the predators among us. While noting continually that violence moves any argument onto ground that you can no longer control, the author allows that there are times when the only response is just that; in any violent encounter, he urges, "the real edge goes to the person with the willingness and the training to get the job done." His book amounts to a kind of notional manual geared more toward reconciliation with the fact that it's an ugly world in which "asocial violence" is rampant rather than a practical guide to pressure points and guaranteed knockout punches--though there certainly are mentions of such things. As the narrative draws to a close, we find Larkin celebrating, more than once, the satisfaction that comes from rhythmic smacking and hearing the crunch of an enemy's bone, all thanks to the fact that readers, now convinced that the world is indeed an arena of Darwinian struggle, have become "explosively efficient." Atavistically so, one might say, but given that the headlines would seem to bear Larkin out, it might be just the attitude to adopt. The repetition may be maddening, drilled into readers like a kata, but Larkin provides some useful nuggets for these fraught times. And remember: violence is always the last resort--even if you're a ninja.

     COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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In a civilized society, violence is rarely the answer. But when it is, it's the only answer. The sound of breaking glass downstairs in the middle of the night. The words, "Move and you die." The hands on your child, or the knife to your throat.
In this essential 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.
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