The Gift of Fear is a guide to understanding how your fear and instincts can protect you, teaching you how to recognize the warning signs people exhibit before turning violent.

Our intuition and our sense of fear matter more than we think.

When something feels off, it probably is. If we learn to listen to our instincts and enhance these abilities, it can even save our lives.

Gavin de Becker is an author and security specialist working for governments, public figures, and large corporations.

During his career, de Becker learned to spot signs of danger by carefully studying people's body language, honing in on his intuition, and mastering the skill of swift decision-making.

In The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence, de Becker teaches us how to use the gift of intuition to protect ourselves from various threats of danger.