True stories of death and desperation<br/><br/>One survivor chooses loneliness.<br/>One chooses exile.<br/>One chooses oblivion.<br/>Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately.<br/>Some seal their own fate in slow motion; others do so in the blink of an eye.<br/><br/>In <i>The Survivors</i>, award-winning true-crime writer Steve Braunias retells twelve mysteries of human nature - unusual stories of how people choose to survive their own lives, and their decisions, desires, impulses... and failings.