WHEN ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE
With the success of my first book, 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive, I was commissioned by my publisher to write a book on urban survival in June of 2004. They initially wanted to use 98.6 as a framework for the new book, and even offered to help write it (cringe). Of course I refused. Nearly a year passed before more dialog happened with my publisher regarding the project. Over the months, I had grown even more disgusted with what was happening to my country, and how “fear” seemed to hold sway over the masses. I knew I could offer people an alternative to fear, vulnerability and powerlessness, and it was this knowingness that led me to want to pursue the project. After months of contract wrangling and negotiations, I started to write When All Hell Breaks Loose sometime in late 2005.