New and Improved C-4: Better-Than-Ever Recipes for Half the Money and Double the Fun

by Ragnar Benson

This book is for all those readers of the original Homemade C-4 who wrote to ask for alternatives that eliminated the need for costly, hard-to-find ingredients, especially nitromethane. These recipes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873648390
• ISBN13: 9780873648394
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Paladin Press
• Length: 77 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Lot's of money for outdated information

Look, the reason people want books like these is because they believe that at some point in the future they will need to make explosives outside the law. "New and Improved C-4" probably met that need at one time, but as of this writing most of the "easy to find" chemicals mentioned in the book have become pretty hard to get. You can bet that if explosives are outlawed, the chemicals to make them with will be too. Ragnar points out in his book that nitromethane and ammonium nitrate both age and become unsuitable for use in explosives. So when these are outlawed, where are you going to get them? Wouldn't it be more prudent then, to write a book on how to steal explosives from the people who are allowed to have them? Why bother stealing nitrate and nitromethane? Go for the already useable substance; explosives. This book simply prompted me to get my explosives manufacturing license so I could lay hands on these chemicals and make some noise. Although four hundred dollars is too much for this book, I would pay one hundred for it, because there are some pretty pleasant surprises in it, and you probably could make a few of the explosives without too much trouble. I think the key ingredient is blasting caps. If you can get some, buy this book, but not for an inflated price ($400). DO NOT attempt to make blasting caps. That would be stupid. Get a license, buy some caps, and have some fun. By the way, the hot tub explosive will exite you at first, until you go to the store and find out that the key ingredient is quickly disappearing from market. I've tried to be honest in this review, and I hope it's helpful. I hope people trying to sell this book aren't too mad at me, but come on, four hundred dollars?