Do not buy this if you are looking for an even halfway decent story. The narrator makes it worse by reading as if he were trapped in a week long tele-meeting going over bad screen plays. There is no character development, people and events flit by with no detail or depth and the dialogue is flat, flat, flat. BUT!!!!! If you are into post apocalyptic prepping (I am-no shade!) The book gives some good ideas and scenarios to think about. It has some good general info but I would have liked more specifics and minutiae. So overall, if this person wrote an actual detailed manual, I would love it!