Publisher's Summary

If you're the squeamish type, turn back now. If you're afraid of a little blood, go no further. But if you've ever wondered what it's like to be struck by lightning, swallowed by quicksand, or stung by a jellyfish, then fasten your seatbelt and get ready for a wild ride.

Extreme Encounters offers blow-by-blow accounts of life's most dangerous experiences in thrilling "you-are-there" second person - so you chill to the numbing effects of frostbite, you hear the ear-splitting roar of a tornado, and you feel the stomach-lurching drop of an elevator freefall. Full of harrowing adventure and surprising scientific insights, Extreme Encounters is a journey you'll never forget.

Extreme Encounters is also available in print from Quirk Books.

Greg Emmanuel has written for MTV, VH1, GQ, ESPN Magazine, Stuff, and Maxim. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and tries his darnedest to avoid anything remotely resembling an extreme encounter. Henry Leyva's stage credits include A Streetcar Named Desire, The Miser, and In the Eye of the Hurricane. He has appeared in One Life to Live and Romancing America. His previous audio credits include Fatal, The Mystery of the Aleph and The Next Fifty Years.