Beat the Heat

This -illustrated handbook contains precise, accessible and potentially lifesaving information about what to say if you're stopped, detained or arrested; what do to when the police, FBI, or INS is at the door; how to read warrants; how to handle interrogation and searches, and much more.

Katya Komisaruk was sentenced to five years in federal prison following a protest against nuclear weapons in 1987. She graduated "cum laude" from Harvard Law School in 1993. Currently a lawyer based in Oakland, California, she travels extensively, providing know-your-rights workshops and legal assistance to activists, community groups, lawyers and law students.