Travel Can Be Murder : A business traveler's guide to personal safety [Mass Market Paperback]

Terry Riley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1998

Criminals are bolder, more violent, and targeting more business travelers than ever. If you aren't taking precautions to safeguard yourself from criminal violence while on the road, you are a sitting duck! This is the most complete guide available to help business travelers prevent becoming victims of robbery, rape, kidnapping or murder.

Editorial Reviews

Review

... How can a business traveler keep safe while on the road? This book tries to answer that question, and for the most part, it does so in fine fashion. International terrorism, plane hijackings, hostage situations, and street crime have made the security executive an important resource for the peripatetic business person. This pocket-size resource provides an easy, convenient way of informing the corporate road warrior of the dangers that exist, how to avoid them, and how to escape them. ... -- Security Management magazine, September, 1998

... a practical, easy-to-follow guide to on-the-road safety. Written by psychologist Terry Riley, the paperback offers more than 600 useful and thought-provoking tips. ... -- The Tactical Traveler on BizTravel.com, June 8, 1998

From the Publisher

Now in its third edition, with more than 200 pages and over 700 tips, this guide remains the most comprehensive and most valuable book on business travel security. In short, the information in this book could save your life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Applied Psychology Pr; 2 edition (March 1, 1998)
• ISBN-10: 0964269813
• ISBN-13: 978-0964269811
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,420,793 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the very first travel specific risk management contributions, April 23, 2010

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Tony J. Ridley "Consultant, speaker, author, ... (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Travel Can Be Murder : The Business Traveler's Guide to Personal Safety (Third Edition) (Paperback)

One of the very first travel specific risk management contributions. Loads of "what ifs" and scenario styled content but format and the overload of information will be lost on your average traveler or executive. Risk managers or security professionals will benefit if not for a refresher on the end-to-end demands of mitigating travel threats, then to educate more specifically what types of scenarios will be faced by your average traveling executive.

707 total tips!

Great reference material or training development tool but not for everyone.

Unless your a travel security professional, your time would be better spent with an afternoon chatting to someone who is and incrementally applying some of the lessons and principles in your everyday travel habits.

2.0 out of 5 stars Just a Mash Up From Other Sources, January 28, 2010

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S. Diggs "Stringbean" (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Travel Can Be Murder : The Business Traveler's Guide to Personal Safety (Third Edition) (Paperback)

If you have never been out of Greenbow, Alabama in your entire life, this book is just the thing for you! If you have the least bit of research capability or can spell Google, you can find every idea in this book someplace else for free. It is a collection of utterly obvious ideas and offers nothing novel. Some of the suggestions are flat wrong and otherwise risky. Example: leave your passport in the hotel safe. Bad idea. Quite a few countries require foreigners to keep their passport on their person at all times. If you are going to travel internationally to a new country, do yourself a favor and do the research the old fashioned way.

Leave this book for Mr. Gump.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This will possibly save your life!, January 17, 2002

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Kirk Belanger (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Travel Can Be Murder : The Business Traveler's Guide to Personal Safety (Third Edition) (Paperback)

This book is chockfull of easy to follow tips that might possibly save your life. Whether you are travelling for business or pleasure, the valuable information gained from reading this book will make your trip a lot more enjoyable in today's climate.
What's more, the contents are put forward in an easy to read format that even the novice will grasp.
A must for the business traveller and those that serve the business traveller.