First Neil Strauss wanted to help average Joes get lucky. Now he wants to help save their lives.

The author of the best-selling pickup-artist book “The Game” is set to release “Emergency,” an eye-opening look at how to survive the increasing global risks of terrorism and natural disasters.

Included are tales of learning to kill and butcher a goat, fly planes, deliver babies, evade hunters and obtain a legal second citizenship. And while Britney Spears may never help save anyone’s life, the “Circus” singer does make a hefty contribution to the tome.

“When I wrote ‘The Game,’ I included a story of how I picked up Britney during an interview,” Strauss told us of his former days as a journalist for Rolling Stone and The New York Times. “Right after the book came out, Britney called me and asked to meet.”

Jaunting to then-pregnant Spears’ Malibu home, Strauss was met by the pop star holding a crumpled-up sheet of paper. On it, she’d written “notes from her life, about cheating on Justin Timberlake, about resenting her parents’ control and about sexually acting out.

“She wanted me to write her life story,” Strauss scribes in “Emergency,” out March 1 from HarperCollins. “I knew the book would be incredible.”

But when her point people began warring over control, Strauss removed himself from the situation and refocused on his task at hand: living.

“Our generation had a wakeup call from events like 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and even our current economic catastrophe,” Strauss says. “We were born in the ’80s and ’90s … when we felt safe and all we wanted to do was be famous and make a lot of money.

“Now, if something awful happens, you’re on your own. The government is dealing with bigger problems, and the National Response Plan is so slow that people will lose their lives unless they move quick and on their own.”

Strauss, who believes “something horrible will again happen in our lifetime,” has some recommendations for New Yorkers in the event of disaster.

“I would have a used, beat-up van parked near a river, and I’ve have an inflatable dinghy on that. I’d be on the water in a heartbeat, because there’s no way you’re driving off [Manhattan]. Traffic is already ridiculous without a disaster,” the former New Yorker laughed.

Strauss noted that, after giving tips on goat slaughtering, “I now have pet goats at home. I even learned how to deliver goat babies. I’m trying to restore my balance with goat karma”

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