Marsha’s Reviews > The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence > Status Update

When you learn the way I have, you have many teachers to thank for many lessons. In the interest of space, I won't list all that I learned from my agent and dear friend Kathy Robbins, or from my exceptional editor and coach, Bill Phillips. I'll say only that what they've taught me is certainly apparent to the people who read and commented on my early drafts: the passionate Erika Holzer, the logical Ted Calhoun, etc.

Amazingly, both men reported that they took special notice of assailant Gunter Parche prior to the stabbing. Henry pegged the attacker quite accurately: "Call it a sixth sense or whatever, I cannot explain it, but I noticed the man. Something told me that something was not quite right with this man. He was swaying instead of walking. I cannot explain it in more detail."

Note the sinister nature of his references. They continued in Taylor's next complaint to the FAA, which was that Hicklin had buzzed his home in what he called a "strafing mission": "Is there a more barbaric, mindless, obscene act than a pilot who would aim an aircraft at defenseless humans for the sole purpose of harassment; by a pilot whose sole sick mission is to establish his dominance over his victims?"