Prologue

What would you do?

You’ve been arrested on charges that you KNOW you’re guilty of and if found guilty will likely put you either on ‘Death Row’ or in Leavenworth for life without parole.

Then, you’re shown a tropical island that looks like Fiji and given the choice of avoiding trial altogether by ‘volunteering’ to go there with only enough supplies to survive and personal items that could fit into two military style duffel bags and a military-style backpack.

You would have no weapons of any kind, not even a slingshot. (There would be items that could be used as weapons, however, they were needed to have any chance at survival.)

The ‘standard toolkit’ was outfitted for two people and consisted of: two machetes with 16” blades, two 6”-bladed survival knives, a fishing kit with 300’ of 50Lb test line, 40 hooks of various sizes, a manual, elastic-band propelled, fishing spear with two extra heads, professional mask, snorkel and fins, one 15-foot square canvas or polypropylene tarp with five grommets per side, two collapsible 5-gallon water jugs, an 8-quart cast-iron Dutch oven with lid, a large cast-iron skillet, a multipurpose Leatherman’s tool, a folding shovel, a five-pound mini sledgehammer, an assortment of approximately 200 nails from ten penny to six-inch spikes, two flints for starting fires, two boxes of 200 waterproof strike-anywhere matches, one medium bow saw with four extra blades, 200 feet of para cord, 200 feet of rappelling line, without the hardware, a hatchet or axe (your choice), sharpening stone, and two double-edged files. On top there would also be a fully stocked, military combat-medic-style first aid kit.