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Manufacturer: Paladin Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 799
EAN: 9780873645782
ISBN: 0873645782
Label: Paladin Press
Manufacturer: Paladin Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: 1990-09
Publisher: Paladin Press
Studio: Paladin Press
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America's most successful bounty hunter reveals advanced details and tricks of hunting and capturing humans. Learn how to obtain an arrest contract, surveillance tips, what to wear during a bust, how to work with the police, hazards of the use of deadly force, how to avoid your own arrest, legal precedents of the trade and more.
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Summary: Should Have Been Better
Comment: I read this book about ten years ago and was just looking through it the other day. It is not Burton's best work by far. It is not a worthy follow-up to the original "Bounty Hunter". This book could have been so much better considering Burton's experience. This is just a collection of stories and not a dialogue on realistic technique. Find something else!
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Summary: Based on Pure Myth
Comment: Wow. Incredible. This book shows how Hasan ibn Sabbah's assassins secretly boarded an enemy's boat. Sabbah's castle wasn't exactly ocean-front or lake-front property. But never mind that.
This book is based on pure myth. If you want good pure myth, read the novel on Hasan ibn Sabbah -- ALAMUT by Vladimir Bartol. At least that book was a bestseller across Europe, so it has some credibility. If you want greater truth on Sabbah and his so-called "cult," read Bernard Lewis (The Assassins) or Farhad Daftary (The Assassin Legends). Neither book will tell you how to assassinate your spouse's secret lover, but you won't regret the money you spend once you've finished, and you'll actually have learned something about terror, myth and civilization.
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Summary: I Wont Let Anyone Borrow This Book
Comment: Not because I think the information is secret or anything, just that I would hate to see one of my irresponsible associates mess it up. One of the first books by Dr.HaHa Lung I have purchased, I find it interesting and educational. The drawings are a little uh... well, the book makes up for them. Oh, and 2 things, if you were going to do anything in that book get Night Movements(the japanese/english translation), Art of War (the WAR not business or other BS association) and a decent medicinal anatomy book. You can learn more from those three than any NINJA book - or you can just get "Im An Idiot And Want To Be Shot In the Face - For Dummies". Secondly, if you think the Stephen Hayes' books are educational or more instructive - you dont need to buy the book in quotations above, you wrote it. So go ninja-hop off a cliff. or something.
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Summary: An interesting book
Comment: First, for Roger in Las Vegas...if your review is for real, and you went around dressed as a ninja, you were asking for it.
For the fellow in Seattle...sorry to hear that. In the US, 75% of the time a martial artist goes to court, they lose. Public perception (even in cases of self defense) is, "That karate guy didn't have to beat up that guy (or guys) so bad."
As for the book, a most interesting history lesson indeed. As for the techniques in the book, as a reviewer stated here no one is going to become a fighter by reading a book about it.
I did find the illustrations (pencil sketches) most interesting in that quite often the victim is made to look like a Crusader with a huge cross on his shirt. Unlike other martial arts books, the knife techniqures are also illustrated with the knife being plunged into someone's body. There's no doubt the illustrations are to teach Islam's view of all "infidels" along with the techniques. If you don't think so, check out the illustration of the captive in a cage or box, and the assassin standing over him holding a knife....and the captive's head.
(The only other time I've seen such ilustrations was in a translated KGB manual and victims were shown in US Army uniforms, with 1st CAV. Div. patches).
I will say this for the book- at least it doesn't start out with 25 lapel grabs and other such things geared for 1800's Japan. In comparison to the run of the mill martial art book, it's a book on bare-handed assassination techniques and knife techniques. We are definitley not talking "dojo ballet" here.
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Summary: A good book, but not revolutionary.
Comment: The book is mostly a history book on the hashishin cult, many techniques are covered but Lung tends to not highlight them, so they are dispersed freely around in the text, i.e., the psychological warfare techniques used to plot two enemies against one another. As for the physical fighting techniques, they're pretty ok but this book, as all other books does in no way make a reader a better fighter simply by reading it. A fighter is as good as the amount of training he puts into his fighting skill, there is no simpler way of saying it.
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