Survive: Practical Personal Safety for the Real World

A calm, practical guide to personal safety—without fear or theatrics.

Written by retired police chief Gary M. Roberts, drawing on more than thirty years of law-enforcement experience, SURVIVE focuses on the ordinary places and situations where people can become vulnerable: driving, parking lots, home security, public spaces, and the routines of everyday life.

This isn’t a book about fighting, weapons, or tactical maneuvers. It’s about something far more useful for most people: awareness, judgment, and simple habits that can reduce risk and create options when something goes wrong.

Drawing on lessons learned from decades of real-world experience, Roberts examines how victims are selected, why familiar surroundings can cause us to lower our guard, and how small changes in everyday behavior can improve personal safety without forcing us to live in fear.

Clear, practical, and deliberately restrained, SURVIVE is for people who want to take greater responsibility for their own safety—and for the people who depend on them.

Someone is waiting for you. Make it home.