The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible
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Hailed by critics and a popular bookseller favorite, The Third Man Factor vividly explores the human capacity to survive and transcend extreme conditions. Publishers Weekly A scientific mystery or divine intervention is how Geiger, the editorial board editor at the Globe and Mail and author of Frozen in Time, describes “The Third Man Factor,” the human knack of facing deprivation and possible death with an unseen presence pointing the path to survival. He researched these visitations for six years, chronicling their history in harrowing life-and-death events with mountaineers, sailors, divers, aviators and polar explorers. It is to Geiger's credit that he stresses the very human need to endure and survive through critical times in the included anecdotes over the sometimes convoluted scientific jargon, especially the gripping tales of the last 9/11 survivor Ron DiFrancesco, NASA astronaut Jerry Linenger aboard the Mir space station and merchant seaman Kenneth Cooke, who paddled in shark-infested waters. Whether this “guardian angel” factor is neurological or divine, Geiger's fresh, insightful book will tell readers “things that are not easily explainable, but no less real for that.” (Sept.)
Foreword Vincent Lam xiChapter 1 The Third Man 1Chapter 2 Shackleton's Angel 20Chapter 3 The Ghosts Walk in Public 44Chapter 4 The Guardian Angel 64Chapter 5 The Pathology of Boredom 83Chapter 6 The Principle of Multiple Triggers 104Chapter 7 Sensed Presence (I) 117Chapter 8 The Widow Effect 123Chapter 9 Sensed Presence (II) 158Chapter 10 The Muse Factor 173Chapter 11 The Power of the Savior 191Chapter 12 The Shadow Person 221Chapter 13 The Angel Switch 237Acknowledgments 255Notes 259Index 285
