A sophisticated murder attempt had missed its mark.
Surviving the murder attempt proved to have been the easy bit.
The perpetrator had two uncles in the Irish police force.
What began as an attempt to pull off the most perfect murder in history, had to settle for becoming a police and judicial cover-up so ham-fisted, it required the services of a private Irish government inquiry in 2017, to "catch and kill" the details, and prevent them from emerging in public.
Only very rarely, are the forensic insights and observations provided in this sensational story of homicide survival, available to readers in such granular detail, and by that token, this could become the book that saves your life, or the lives of your young children.
Excerpts:
" . . . When I heard George Floyd calling out for his mother, as a group of Minneapolis police officers asphyxiated him on live television in 2020, I was indelibly struck by the violence of our enduring kinship in pre-death . . . "
" . . . I had teetered on the brink between life and death by strangulation, and like George Floyd, I experienced the comfort dying people derive, from youthful memories of their mother . . . "
" . . . A victim's shame at being victimized, forms a core element of the victimization process, and becomes part of a "Stockholm Syndrome Effect", which predators fully exploit . . . "
" . . . Survivalism has a unique individuality to it, in the sense that the natural tendency for third-parties to play the situation down, or to overreact, produces a distraction which alters the primal focus instinctive to monitoring an inexorably lethal threat . . . "
