Close Calls
- Publisher
- Brush Education
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2010
- Category
- Trivia, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550593914
- Publish Date
- Jan 2010
- List Price
- $23.95
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
A seagull wipes out an entire country’s air force, the dropped wrench socket that launches a nuclear warhead, a possessed kimono destroys 75% of Tokyo, a criminal finds that his dungeon is the safest place to be when a volcano erupts, an ambulance crash saves its patient, a mother of three is buried alive for 101 days, a woman falls 33,330 feet—and lives, a farmer carves his last will on a tractor fender with his pocket knife, a shell-shocked WW1 vet becomes a famous movie canine, performing for a dead man saves a group of musicians... These and many other CLOSE CALLS await you inside. Some of the accounts are like short, hard punches. Others are longer because they demand it. All 200 are factual. Some are humorous, many are shocking, others are disgusting. Some close calls turn out to be victories. Others will make you shudder, weep, or shout.