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When Violence Is the Answer
- Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is at Stake
- Narrated by: Tim Larkin
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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 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 Answer will remain with you long after you've finished listening, as the bedrock of your self-protection skills and knowledge.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-07-24
Fantastic!
The main message of the book is undeniably honest, no matter how uncomfortable it can make a person feel. We live in a world with a lot of bad people. Accept the mindset that Tim Larkin presents because it is necessary in the process of assessing the situation so you can act quickly to protect yourself and your family. Thanks Tim!
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- JPS
- 2022-11-26
The best book on surviving a violent attack
This book was a revelation. Thank you to Mr. Larkin for telling the truth about violence, and for giving all of us a better chance at avoiding or surviving it.
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- alexis
- 2019-12-19
Understanding the reality of violence
One of the best books on understanding violence and its reality... and the reality of self defense
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- Jake Crosby
- 2020-09-17
I was hooked
people often forgot how dark the world really is, we don't live in a fantasy land like a lot of people seem to be. "the world we live in, not the world we want."
I was hooked from the beginning.
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- Shannon Duffy
- 2021-04-01
You got to get this!
Absolutely amazing work. This book is a must read / listen to for everyone. The information given, and knowledge gained will make you look at the tool of violence in a much different light.
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- D Allen
- 2023-01-13
Excellent, and may save a life
This was a fantastic book and guide. It opened my eyes to many aspects of self defense that are rarely covered in an average class. It would have been helpful to have a PDF with diagrams to go with the later chapters on leverage, etc.. Aside from that, this was a GREAT purchase.
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- david lanktree
- 2023-09-24
Confused
A glut of confusing info with stats that have no applications in street level combat. Why is it that we make these SOF operators as demigods ? with a gun or explosives okay listen but H2H not so much.
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- Eddy B.
- 2020-03-02
Ok
The first 3/4 of the book is pretty good. Great mindsets for survival. Goes into some unrealistic self defense ideas near the end.
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