How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life Author: Visit Amazon's J.J. Luna Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1250010454 | Format: PDF
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Praise for How to be Invisible
"Fascinating... a regular field manual… meticulously researched and very entertaining." --G. Gordon Liddy
"A subversive, disturbing, and altogether remarkable exposure of our frightening transparency to government agencies, investigators, the media, and more malign forces. This is a memorable work which should be considered by many."
--Kirkus Reviews
"J.J. Luna gives the smartest, sanest, and most practical advice on just how to stay out of sight in the real world. Buy this book if you value your privacy."--Ned Beaumont, author of Beat the Border and The Policeman Is Your Friend and Other Lies
"Read this meticulously researched and highly entertaining book, learn its techniques...then vanish in plain sight!"
--Lt. Patrick Picciarelli, NYPD (ret.), bestselling author of Jimmy the Wags
About the Author
In 1959, J. J. (Jack) Luna sold his outdoor advertising business in the Upper Midwest and moved with his wife and small children to Spain’s Canary Islands. Outwardly, he was a professional writer and photographer. Secretly, he worked underground in an activity that was at that time illegal under the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Although many of his friends were jailed or deported, Luna was never apprehended.
In 1970 Franco moderated Spain's laws, leaving Luna free to come in from the cold. By that time, however, privacy and secrecy had become ingrained habits. In the years that followed he started up various low-profile one-person businesses, built them up, and then sold them. Since 1999 he’s worked—among other things—as an international consultant specializing in personal privacy and security.
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- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; Third Edition, Revised and Updated edition (July 17, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1250010454
- ISBN-13: 978-1250010452
- Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Let's get a couple things straight.
There are a good number of people who assume that you need to be on the run from the law or on some sort of terrorist watchlist to buy a book called "How to Be Invisible". That's clear just from the reviews of the second edition of this book.
And some over-the-top, exuberant reviews of this new edition, bordering on gospel, don't help either.
The fact is, there are dozens of examples throughout this book of ordinary, law-abiding citizens who have put Jack Luna's principles into practice, and have come out the better for it, for an endless variety of reasons. And there are many people alive today who are kicking themselves for not putting those principles into their lives.
The title is misleading. You don't have to make yourself "invisible" to gain wisdom from this book and apply it to your daily life. Luna outlines simple precautions, costing virtually nothing, that will give you more privacy than 99 percent of the population. But if you want to burn your bridges and make your tracks a memory, the tools are there. And if the principles in the book are fully implemented, you'll give the best PIs in the country a run for their money.
"But if you don't have anything to hide, why should you worry?"
Ah, the age-old retort. Nothing to hide? Good for you!
But think for a second -- is there anything in your house or on your computer that you wouldn't want splayed across the front page of the New York Times?
And that's not a rhetorical question. Not a week goes by without the contents of someone's life published in the newspapers and online, from a false arrest or an innocent mix-up, or even good news like winning the lottery.
The only reason I'm not giving this book five stars is that I reserve the highest rating for masterpieces of literature or science. This is more of a fast reading interesting and mind blowing "how-to" book. However, if you are planning on moving to a new home or apartment anytime in the next several years, this book should be a 5-star choice for you. It's critical reading for anyone planning a move, or who knows they will be moving in the future. Anyway, I've read JJ Luna's prior editions of HOW TO BE INVISIBLE and got my hands on an advance copy of this newly revised 2012 edition...just in time for my vacation. I read this book on the beach and it had no problem holding my attention (that's a compliment if you know what I mean!). I had reviewed the book in the past as somewhat out of date, and cautiously I read the new edition to see if it was just a rehash of old material. To my surprise I only noticed a few carry-over stories. I didn't do a serious comparison, my point is that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book as if I were reading it for the first time. JJ Luna rose to the occasion of making a very contemporary book that was obviously recently written. It never ceases to amaze me how much of an information trail we are all leaving behind us as we go through normal daily activities...and it's only gotten WORSE since the last edition of this book was published. I can't always do anything about it, but I think it's important to know how unsafe it is to have personal information constantly being collected and stored. Take my utility bills: JJ Luna explains EXACTLY how private investigators (often working for lawyers or crossed lovers) obtain personal information that utility companies tell you is safe. This book is an eye-opener.
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