Elevator Pitch Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2007) Both were gifted young psychology

Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of Holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved

And when she questions him about it on the phone

and she knows fear for what it is: a useful tool for staying alive

Or she dies betrayed

Elevator Pitch Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2007) Both were gifted young psychologyIt all begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in a Manhattan office tower. Each presses a button for their floor, but the elevator proceeds, non stop, to the top. Once there, it stops for a few seconds, and then plummets. Right to the bottom of the shaft. It appears to be a horrific, random tragedy. But then, on Tuesday, it happens again, in a different Manhattan skyscraper. And when Wednesday brings yet another high rise catastrophe,