What I liked about this book was the carefree attitude. It did the subject the way I liked. As a fun idea to play around with. The suggestions were very good for the smaller things. How to hide money. How to hide jewelry. Then it grew to larger and larger items. Eventually it got into hiding a closet, hiding a room, hiding a house, hiding a corporation. :)

I have several books on hiding places. While all of them have useful ideas, the strong suits of this book are the outdoor, structural, and away-from-home hiding places.

The outdoor hidies are great for those with their own land. There are several innovative ideas that the other books do not have, including a tree stash.

The structural hidies are also different -- these aren't just making false drawer bottoms. :) There are pipe, appliance, wall and even drain hidies. Furniture hidies are covered extensively as well, but this review focuses on what makes this book different from the other hiding books.

The away-from-home hiding places are ingenious, easy to do and will hide your valuables from the casual thief and the sticky-fingered maid alike. Obviously, there is little to no carpentry involved and in fact you could use the same principles in your own home if you are carpentry impaired like me. :)

One last strong point of this book is the writing. Throughout, it talks about the psychology of the thief and why some hides work better than others to prevent theft. The main focus is not hiding things from the government or the police, who often have a whole different mindset and a lot more time than a thief does. If you are more interested specifically in strategies to hide objects from law enforcement or the government, there are hiding books that focus on that rather than thieves and I recommend you get one of those instead.

Please note: As with all hiding place books, you simply must have some carpentry experience and a lot of patience. There are no step-your-hand instructions on how to make a hiding place here (or in any other hiding book I've seen either). The ideas are presented, and it is up to you to make them work in your own home or land.