100 Deadly Skills

This book just stupid. It's more like 100 skills Jason Bourne could use in movies. For example, “every hotel room has a bible or Quran in a bedside drawer and a couple of these taped together yields an improvised body armor that provides significant protection from projectiles.” Seriously. What am I supposed to break into the room next to me to steal an extra bible and run out and buy tape? As an average size man, I used the bible in my room just now and based on it I would need 4 just to cover my chest and no duct tape anywhere.

These might be real skills, but it's pure entertainment for basic folks like me who want to pretend they will ever have the day in a life of a “violent nomad”. This kind of non-fiction is better than any spy novel or video game because it lets you imagine for a few hours that you may actually need to survive in hostile territory or engage in covert activity. Reminds me of the children's Spy Handbook that I was obsessed with at the age of 9. Very fun.