Prepared: A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios
by Mike Glover, Jack Carr
Why You'll Love This
A former Green Beret argues that preppers have it all wrong — and his actual framework is far more useful than any bunker.
- Great if you want: practical resilience skills grounded in real special operations experience
- The experience: direct and no-nonsense — reads like a trusted expert briefing you personally
- The writing: Glover and Carr keep it lean and structured — more field manual than self-help fluff
- Skip if: you want deep tactical gear guides — the focus stays mental and strategic
About This Book
Most people associate survival preparation with bunkers and stockpiles—a paranoid, all-or-nothing mindset that leaves them completely unprepared for the crises that actually happen: car accidents, power outages, natural disasters, medical emergencies. Mike Glover, a former Green Beret with twenty years across Special Forces and CIA contracting, offers something more grounded and more useful. Co-written with bestselling thriller author Jack Carr, Prepared reframes readiness not as fear-driven hoarding but as a cultivated state of mind—one built on situational awareness, physical mobility, and mental resilience. The stakes here are personal and immediate, and that's precisely what makes the book feel urgent rather than alarmist.
What distinguishes this from the crowded shelf of survival guides is how readable it is. Glover's hard-won field experience is translated through Carr's storytelling instincts into prose that moves with clarity and purpose—no jargon thickets, no chest-thumping machismo. The book is structured progressively, building each concept on the last so readers develop a genuine framework rather than a checklist. It treats preparedness as a lifestyle philosophy, and by the final pages, that perspective feels less like instruction and more like common sense you've always had but never quite named.