Non-fiction. This book provides the reader with a set of tools to use when law enforcement agents are investigating them or their surrounding. BEAT THE HEAT teaches you what to say when you are arrested, or when officers want to search you, your car or your home. "This is a book that every American should read before they find themselves in an encounter with a law enforcement agent"--Johnnie Cochran. "Read it, use it, pass it on"--Zack de la Rocha, Rage Against the Machine.