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Twenty years breaching doors for a living, and everything it taught me about the rest of life.

Two field manuals — personal safety out in the world, and home and family. Ninety situations from my own record, checked against DOJ, FBI, and published research rather than memory alone.

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90Situations
18Chapters
16Diagrams
20Years
Andy Sutton
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Most of what the job taught me had nothing to do with force. It was about not needing to use any.

Andy Sutton
I.

What it is

Every page is one situation, and what I do about it now.

Not checklists. Not gear reviews. Each of the ninety pages across both books has the same six parts: the situation, why it happened, where I learned it, what it cost, what I do now, and where that response stops working — because that last part is the half most safety guides leave out entirely.

II.

The honest cost

What twenty years of not knowing this actually costs.

Illustrative, not a guarantee — every situation is different. What doesn't change is that understanding a mechanism costs less than learning it the hard way.

Learning it the slow way

  • A strike plate that failed under forcea door, gone
  • Time lost to a false sense of securityyears
  • A habit that should have started soonerhard to price
  • An assumption corrected after the facttoo late to help
Ordinary costreal, and often hidden

Reading it first

  • Both books$29
  • 16 diagrams, drawn for these booksincluded
  • Every safety claim sourced and checkedincluded
  • Free updates for lifeincluded
Total$29
III.

Two books, one price

Public safety, and home and family.

Each book stands alone. Together they cover the two places most people actually spend their time: out in the world, and at home.

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Book One · 45 situations · 9 chapters

Personal Safety in Public

Situational awareness, reading a room, being followed, hotels, rideshares, your own car, de-escalation, and the two responses that cover nearly every serious situation — without a single page on how to fight.

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Book Two · 45 situations · 9 chapters

Home and Family

The front door, the house's read from the street, windows and garages, alarms honestly assessed, the one room that matters, talking to kids without frightening them, and the street beyond your own yard.

IV.

The full contents

All ninety, by name, in both books.

Open a chapter to read its five. If it's not on this list, it's not in either book.

01 What My Own Front Door Taught Me
  1. Twenty Years of Breaching Doors, and What It Taught Me About My Own
  2. The Strike Plate Nobody Ever Upgrades
  3. A Deadbolt Is Only as Strong as What It's Screwed Into
  4. The Door I Walked Past Without Testing
  5. What I'd Actually Check Before Anything Else
02 Reading a Room Before It Reads You
  1. Every Room Has an Exit. Most People Never Find It.
  2. The Seat I Take Without Thinking About It Anymore
  3. Who's Watching the Door, and Who Isn't
  4. I Used to Case Buildings for a Living. I Never Stopped.
  5. The Three Seconds Before Anything Happens
03 Being Followed, and Not Knowing It
  1. I Taught People to Tail a Target and Never Thought I'd Notice One
  2. The Same Car Twice Is a Coincidence. Three Times Is Not.
  3. Changing My Route Felt Paranoid Until It Didn't
  4. What I Tell My Daughter About the Walk From the Garage
  5. The Parking Lot Is Where Most of It Starts
04 Hotels and Places I Didn't Choose
  1. The Room I Ask For Now, Every Single Time
  2. I Check the Fire Exit Before I Unpack
  3. A Chain on the Door Is Not What People Think It Is
  4. The Lobby Tells You More Than the Room Does
  5. What Twenty Years of Staying Somewhere New Taught Me
05 Rideshares, Cabs, and Getting In Someone Else's Car
  1. I Confirm the Plate Before I Confirm Anything Else
  2. The Front Seat Habit I Can't Break
  3. Sharing the Trip Felt Excessive Until the One Time It Wasn't
  4. What I Do Differently at Night Than in the Afternoon
  5. The Driver Who Took the Wrong Turn on Purpose
06 The Car Isn't Safe Just Because the Doors Are Locked
  1. Boxed In Is a Different Problem Than Lost
  2. I Leave Space at the Light for a Reason Most People Don't Know
  3. The Gas Tank Rule I Never Break Anymore
  4. What I Taught My Kids About the Drive Home Alone
  5. Getting Run Off the Road Is Rare. Being Followed Off It Isn't.
07 Talking Someone Down
  1. The Job Was Never About Winning the Confrontation
  2. What Actually Lowers the Temperature in a Room
  3. I Was Trained to De-escalate Before I Was Trained for Anything Else
  4. The Tone That Ends Things Before They Start
  5. When Walking Away Is the Hardest Instruction to Follow
08 When Leaving Beats Staying
  1. The Instinct to Help Can Get You Killed First
  2. Every Building I Ever Entered, I Also Planned How to Leave
  3. What I Tell People Who Ask What They'd Do
  4. The Door You Came In Is Rarely the Right One to Leave By
  5. Getting Out Is Not Giving Up
09 Getting Home
  1. The Last Ten Minutes of Any Trip Are Not the Time to Relax
  2. What I Check Before I Ever Get Out of the Car
  3. The Habit That Looks Like Nothing From the Outside
  4. Twenty Years of Coming Home, and What Changed
  5. The Walk From the Car to the Door Is the Whole Point of This Book
01 What My Own Front Door Taught Me
  1. Twenty Years of Breaching Doors, and What It Taught Me About My Own
  2. The Strike Plate Nobody Ever Upgrades
  3. A Deadbolt Is Only as Strong as What It's Screwed Into
  4. The Door I Walked Past Without Testing
  5. What I'd Actually Check Before Anything Else
02 The House I'd Skip
  1. How a House Gets Read From the Street, Before Anyone Ever Touches It
  2. The Yard That Says Nobody's Watching
  3. Light Is Cheaper Than Almost Anything Else on This List
  4. What Convicted Burglars Actually Said Deters Them
  5. The House Two Doors Down That Never Gets Picked
03 Windows, Garages, and the Doors Nobody Reinforces
  1. The Window Latch That Was Never Built to Stop Anyone
  2. A Coat Hanger and Six Seconds
  3. The Side Door That Gets Forgotten Every Single Time
  4. Basement Windows Are Not a Minor Detail
  5. What I Fixed in My Own Garage After I Learned How Easy It Was
04 Alarms and Cameras, From Someone Who Used to Read Them
  1. What an Alarm Actually Buys You, and What It Doesn't
  2. The Camera Angle That Sees Nothing Useful
  3. A Yard Sign Does Some of the Work, Honestly
  4. Verified Response and Why It Matters More Than People Think
  5. What I'd Spend Money on First, and What I Wouldn't
05 The Room We'd Actually Use
  1. Every House Has One Room That Actually Works, and It's Rarely the One People Pick
  2. What a Lockable Door and a Phone Actually Buy You
  3. The Family Meeting Point Nobody Had Agreed On
  4. Practicing This Without Making It Frightening
  5. What I Keep in That Room and Why
06 Talking to My Kids About This Without Scaring Them
  1. The Conversation I Put Off Longer Than I Should Have
  2. Stranger Danger Was Never the Right Lesson
  3. What I Actually Taught Them Instead
  4. The Age I Started, and Why I Didn't Wait Longer
  5. How My Kids Talk About This Now, in Their Own Words
07 What Happens After
  1. The First Ten Minutes After You Realize Something's Wrong
  2. Why I Tell People to Touch Nothing, Even When It's Tempting
  3. What Actually Helps an Investigation, From Someone Who Used to Run Them
  4. The Insurance Call I Wish I'd Made Sooner
  5. Feeling Safe in the House Again
08 The Street, Not Just the House
  1. The Neighbor Who Noticed Before I Did
  2. What a Watch Group Actually Does, and What It Doesn't
  3. The Research on Whether Any of This Works
  4. Introducing Myself to People I'd Lived Near for Years
  5. A Street That Looks Occupied Even When It Isn't
09 Leaving the House Empty
  1. The Mail Pile That Told the Whole Street We Were Gone
  2. What I Automate Now So I Don't Have to Remember
  3. The Neighbor With a Key, and Why That Matters More Than a Camera
  4. Social Media and the Vacation Everyone Could See
  5. Coming Home to a House That Looks Exactly as I Left It
V.

Inside the books

What the pages actually look like.

A situation page
One situation per page, always the same six parts.
A diagram page
16 diagrams across both books, drawn for these, not stock.
Corrections page
A full page in each book of things I had wrong.
VI.

Why you can trust it

Corrected in the open, not quietly fixed.

Both books have a full page listing what I got wrong and corrected once I checked it, rather than the comfortable version of the advice. A few examples:

  • Trusting a locked deadbolt without ever checking the strike plate screws behind it — three-quarter-inch screws stop in the door jamb; three-inch screws reach the stud, which is what actually resists force.
  • Teaching "stranger danger" as the main lesson for kids. Family members are involved in a child's abduction at a rate roughly two thousand times higher than strangers, nationally.
  • Believing a widely repeated statistic that most burglars use social media to find targets. It traces to one security company's survey of fifty people. A real 500-person study found a far smaller share.
  • Assuming an alarm brings a fast police response. Nationally, 94–98% of alarm activations are false, which is why verification changes everything about how a call gets treated.

Sources named on the page and listed at the back of each book: DOJ, FBI, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Council on Criminal Justice, and peer-reviewed research from UNC Charlotte and the Campbell Collaboration.

VII.

About the author

Andy Sutton.

Twenty years on tactical entry teams, and almost none of what mattered day to day was about force. It was about noticing things early enough that force never came up. That habit doesn't turn off when the job ends.

These two books are that habit, applied to an ordinary life: the walk from a car to a door, a hotel room, a rideshare, a family's own front door. Every situation is one I actually encountered. Where anything touches something that could hurt you, I checked it against what the people who actually study this publish, and where I had it wrong, I said so.

Andy Sutton is a pen name. The experience described draws on tactical entry and protective work generally rather than one person's service record.

A quiet kitchen table
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None of it is dramatic. That was always the actual goal.

Andy Sutton
VIII.

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  • 16 diagrams drawn for these booksincluded
  • Sources page in each book, check every claimincluded
  • Free updates for lifeincluded
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IX.

Questions

Before you buy.

Is this about guns or self-defense?

No. Neither book contains firearms training, use-of-force guidance, or physical confrontation technique of any kind. Where a situation could turn dangerous, the guidance is the same throughout: create distance, disengage, and call for help.

Does it tell me what I'm legally allowed to do?

No, and it isn't meant to. What the law permits varies by state and by circumstance, and both books say so plainly and point at who to actually ask — a local attorney or your local police department.

What do I actually get?

Two PDFs, 69 and 72 pages, large type, laid out to read well on a tablet and print cleanly. Both download instantly.

Can I buy just one book?

These are sold as a set at $29. Every situation in both books is listed on this page, so you can see exactly what's in each before deciding.

Is the research real?

Yes, and the whole point of the corrections page in each book is proving it. Every statistic is sourced on the page it appears on and listed again at the back. Where a popular claim didn't hold up when checked, it isn't in the book — or it's in the corrections page explaining why.

What if it's not for me?

Ask for a refund within 7 days. The full contents of both books is on this page precisely so nobody buys expecting something different.

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If either book saves you the version of the lesson that costs more to learn, it's paid for itself.

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