Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story

Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story by Jim Enderle

If the key to fulfillment and a happy life were contained in one page, most of us would travel to the ends of the earth to find it. But what if those sage words and advice were held by the worst enemy you could imagine? Would reconciliation, forgiveness, and an acknowledgment of their humanity be possible if your fate hung in the balance?

“Jim enderle has taken his own wartime experience, and those of other veterans, to illuminate the path to where we can each become selfless catalysts for healing, which may be, indeed, the highest goal we could imagine.”

— Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, best-selling author

Jim Enderle has written an utterly unique and profound book about nothing less than war, and life, and love. I doubt I’ve ever seen pain and hope paired so closely.

Sebastian Junger, author and director of a trilogy of documentaries on war’s effects on returning soldiers.

“The story runs the gamut of introspection and conflict. its resolution is one that will leave you fulfilled in a way that will surprise you. Get ready for a great read!”

— Dwight Jon Zimmerman, NY Times Best-Selling author

TEDx Eustis, Florida

In an expanded story from early in Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story, I recounted my first encounter with racism as an eight-year-old in Chicago, 1966. I chanced across one of Martin Luther King’s Freedom Movement Marches when my world changed.

TEDx bismarck, north dakota

In Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story’s pivotal showdown, I confronted a suspected al-Qaeda militant who had somehow obtained my family address, but instead found him in his final moments. Unsure what to do, I stood there, with a weapon in one hand and a life-saving tourniquet in the other.