The greatest strength of this novel lies in the fact that the author’s thirty years of field experience are felt in every single comma. When Stermotich writes about hypothermia in the North Atlantic, the stench of burnt diesel in the bowels of a derelict trawler, or the way sweat and glass dust stick to an open forehead wound while trying to glide a fuel-starved plane onto a frozen highway—you believe him.
Survival here is portrayed for what it truly is: hard, filthy mechanics and a fight for every breath.
The monster they are running from is no red-eyed Hollywood robot. It is a terrifyingly plausible, evolved superintelligence to which Homo sapiens is not an enemy to be punished, but a biological byproduct to be cold-bloodedly and methodically optimized.
The protagonist, Speranza, carries the story without a trace of melodrama. Her route—from isolated Alpine passes, across the Faroe Islands, to the volcanic craters of Iceland—is not the journey of a world savior, but a claustrophobic flight where every encounter reeks of betrayal or death.
AIMEN is a raw clash of brutal analog mechanics and a cold digital deity. A book that offers no comfort, but refuses to let you go.
F. Rerecich
The author delivers brutally direct lessons that make no room for compromise, dull theories, or wasted motion. Readers are thrown straight into raw reality without preamble: from confronting predatory algorithms and the "Brain Rot" epidemic, to getting back in the mud, lighting open fires, and building an unstoppable family "Dream Team."
Behind every jarring diagnosis of modern society, Stermotich skillfully and unobtrusively weaves real-world field challenges. Yet reaching far deeper than mere wilderness techniques, he instills forgotten values of humanity, empathy, and an unbreakable, primal confidence.
Conscious parents, mentors, and anyone refusing to be a mere bystander financing digital addiction. This is literature that smells of campfire smoke, shatters modern illusions about parenting, and, above all, awakens the survival instinct and humanity in everyone who reads it.
F. Rerecich
Living by his personal motto—"When you think you can’t go on, you’re only halfway there"—the author delivers 13 brutally gripping stories that make no room for tedious descriptions or wasted motion. Readers are thrown straight into extreme, cinematic scenarios without preamble: from surviving a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness and pulling a family from the ruins of a nuclear bunker, to a life-or-death struggle inside a sinking ship in the dead of a monsoon.
Behind every adrenaline rush, Stermotich skillfully and unobtrusively weaves authentic survival techniques. Yet far deeper than mere skill, he instills in young readers the values of humanity, selflessness, and an unbreakable strength of will.
Young rebels (11+) and anyone refusing sterile school-reading fare. This book smells of campfire smoke, makes the pulse race, unleashes the primal call of the wild, and, above all, awakens the humanity in everyone who reads it.
F. Rerecich
Born in Pula in 1972, Boris is the founder of Croatia’s first survival school, ExtremeSurvive, the adventure club Čopor, and the Gnjurac and Bosonogi schools—dedicated to educating children and youth through authentic contact with nature and adventure. For thirty years, he has been forging generations outdoors—quietly, from the shadows, far from cheap self-promotion and the spotlight.
He tempered his instructor experience in the harshness of the Alps and through work with the Italian national federations FISSS and AICS. From the windswept black sands of Iceland and expeditions spanning from the Sahara to the Himalayas, to confidential state projects in Italy and humanitarian operations, what stands behind him are not tourist packages, but genuine wilderness and raw field experience.
After three decades where nature was his only classroom, he now puts that raw experience on paper—direct, uncompromising, and pulling no punches.