THE ACTION HERO'S HANDBOOK

Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2002. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo. 192 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Subtitled: How to Catch a Great White Shark - Perform the Vulcan Nerve Pinch - Track a Fugitive - and Dozens of Other TV and Movie Skills. The Chapters are: GOOD GUY SKILLS: How to Secure - Spy Proof a Hotel Room; How to Track a Fugitive; How to Interrogate a Suspect; How to Secure and Read a Crime Scene; How to Take Fingerprints; How to Catch a Great White Shark; How to Tell When Someone Is Really Dead; How to Save a Patient Who Has Flat-lined; How to Survive in Prison When You're Wrongfully Incarcerated; How to Drive a Bus at High Speed; How to Negotiate a Hostage Crisis and Buy More Time; How to Take a Bullet; How to Save Someone Who's Hanging from a Cliff. LOVE SKILLS: How to Stop a Wedding; How to Dirty Dance; How to Make and Use a Love Potion; How to Pick Someone Up in a Bar; How to Turn Sexual Tension into Mad Passionate Sex. PARANORMAL SKILLS: How to Communicate with an Extraterrestrial; How to Contact the Dead; How to Fend Off a Ghost; How to Perform the Jedi Mind Trick; How to Perform the Vulcan Nerve Pinch; How to Predict the Future. FIGHTING SKILLS: How to Train for a World Championship Title Fight; How to Take a Hit with a Chair; How to Draw and Win a Gunfight; How to Be Ready for Anything; How to Win a Fight When You're Outnumbered 3 to 1; How to Disarm a Thug with a Gun. ESCAPE SKILLS: How to Escape a MiG; How to Fix Your Space Shuttle on Re-entry; How to Make a Clean Getaway; How to Win a High-Speed Chase in a Car; How to Win a High-Speed Chase on Foot; How to Catch Someone in the Air when You Don't Have a Parachute; How to Climb Mount Rushmore; How to Crash Through a Window; How to Escape from Handcuffs; How to Navigate a Ventilation Shaft; How to Escape from a Sinking Cruise Ship; and How to Escape from Alcatraz..