About the Author
James Wesley Rawles is the creator and editor of SurvivalBlog.com, the most popular online resource for family preparedness in the event of disasters, cataclysms, and catastrophes. He is a world-renowned expert across a wide range of fields, including food provisioning, fuel storage, self-defense, communications, shelter security, emergency backpacks and kits, specialized vehicles, shelter design, self-reliance through agriculture and small livestock, as well as various traditional survival skills for autonomous living. The author is a former U.S. military intelligence officer. His consultation clients for crisis preparation include CEOs from the Fortune 500 list, clergy, entrepreneurs, and financial managers. Influential Rawles not only talks the talk but also walks the walk: he lives with his family in a well-prepared, self-sufficient retreat "somewhere west of the Rockies." Rawles is also the author of the book "Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse," described as "a survival manual skillfully disguised as a fictional novel," as well as two other novels dedicated to the same theme.