by Ashely Alker
First published 2027
Dr. Ashely Alker calls herself a death-escapologist, though most people know her as an emergency medicine doctor. She has treated victims of flesh-eating bacteria, serial killers, and countless everyday dangers that prove just as lethal. Her experience keeping people alive has taught her how easily death can strike and how often it can be prevented. This guide presents 99 terrifying ways people die and the practical steps to avoid each fate. Alker draws from her patient cases and personal experiences to illustrate dangers spanning sex, poison, drugs, biological warfare, disease, animals, crime, and natural elements. She delivers life-saving information with dark humor that makes frightening topics both accessible and memorable. The result is a survival manual that educates while it entertains, offering readers the knowledge to recognize threats and take action before it's too late.
Genres: survival, medical, self-help, non-fiction
Vibes: dark, educational, informative, thought-provoking
Tropes: educational, informative, survival
384 pages · Paperback · St. Martin's Griffin
Content warnings: death, medical-trauma