The Gift of Fear

US: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2000. Paperback. Good. Each hour, 75 women are raped in the United States, and every few seconds, a woman is beaten. Each day, 400 Americans suffer shooting injuries, and a nother 1,100 face criminals armed with guns. Author Gavin de Becker says vi ctims of violent behavior usually feel a sense of fear before any threat or violence takes place. They may distrust the fear, or it may impel them to some action that saves their lives. A leading expert on predicting violent behavior, de Becker believes we can all learn to recognize these signals of the "universal code of violence," and use them as tools to help us survive . The book teaches how to identify the warning signals of a potential attac ker and recommends strategies for dealing with the problem before it become s life threatening. The case studies are gripping and suspenseful, and incl ude tactics for dealing with similar situations." --.