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No. It is a working manual. There are no statistics in here designed to keep you up at night. Almost nothing in a break-in is exotic — the house was picked because it looked easy — and nearly all of the fix is hardware, light, sight lines, and one conversation at the kitchen table. Most of this book is a Saturday afternoon and a trip to the hardware store.

The videos are one fix at a time, in whatever order I thought to film them. The book is the whole walkthrough, in the order I would actually do it in your house — audit first, free fixes second, the door your family uses third — with the part numbers, the prices, the time each job takes, and the point at which each fix stops working. That last part does not fit in a video, and it is what keeps you from putting a hundred-dollar lock on a hollow door and calling it done.

Because the whole book argues that the right fixes are cheap and the expensive ones are usually wrong, and I would look ridiculous charging two hundred dollars to say it. $27 is about a box of three-inch screws and a decent strike plate. If the book is worth anything, Chapter 8 pays for it before you finish the morning.

A PDF, delivered the moment you check out. It reads on a phone, a tablet or a computer, and it prints cleanly if you would rather carry the audit sheet around the house with a pencil — which is how I use it. Instant download, yours forever.

A good part of it, yes. The audit, the free fixes, lighting, the lived-in look, answering the door, package theft, neighbors, the family plan and the whole of Part Ten apply whether or not you own the building. Where a fix needs a landlord's permission or a drill, I say so in the chapter and give you the version that does not.

No. Chapter 6 is nothing but the free fixes and the five dollar fixes, and it is worth more than most of what people buy. Three to five minutes of delay is functionally a wall for the ordinary break-in, and in most houses that is two or three hundred dollars and a couple of weekends. Appendix B lays the plan out at several budgets so you can see where your money goes furthest.

Part Nine does, narrowly and carefully. It covers escape as the plan, how to think about the decision before the night it matters, storing things safely, and when to go get real training. It is informational, not legal advice — I am not a lawyer and I am not your instructor. Laws on self-defense, weapons, cameras and recording vary widely by state and change often, so confirm anything in Part Nine with a licensed attorney where you live.