The OSS Method for Self-Defense
Your first plan works right up until it doesn't.
The phone dies. The usual exit is blocked. The ride disappears. The person you trusted changes the terms. Suddenly, the plan you expected to rely on is gone.
The OSS Method for Self-Defense is about what you do next.
During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services sent people into environments where plans broke, communications failed, conditions changed, and waiting for perfect information could be its own mistake. Their advantage wasn't having a flawless plan. It was preparation for the moment the plan stopped being useful.
That idea belongs far beyond espionage.
This book shows you how to build fallbacks into ordinary life before you need them: another route, another way to communicate, another place to go, another way to verify what you're being told, and another move when someone else is trying to narrow your choices.
Drawing from documented OSS history, including Virginia Hall, the Jedburgh teams, Detachment 101, X-2 counterintelligence, and the Research and Analysis Branch, P.J. Agness turns intelligence history into a practical system for staying functional when circumstances change.
Not spy tricks.
Not combat techniques.
Not survivalist fantasy.
Preparation. Adaptation. Communication. Resistance to pressure. Recovery.
Each chapter ends with a FIELD RULE, FIELD TEST, and FIELD DRILL, so the principles become habits rather than interesting stories you forget when you close the book.
Because personal safety isn't only about recognizing danger.
Sometimes it's about having somewhere to go when Plan A disappears.
If your first plan failed tonight, would you already know your second?
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