Adam is at a team picking event for his son's lacrosse league, when the stranger approaches. The stranger tells Adam that his wife has a secret and then informs him how to find out the details. When Adam confronts his wife Corinne she promises to tell him the truth but disappears.

Their life had been so wonderful with only a few normal issues that Adam is thrown and begins his search for his wife hoping to save his family. As Adam searches for his wife a much deadlier man is searching for the stranger and will stop at nothing to find him. As their lives approach a collision course Adam must find the truth and his wife before his own life is lost.

Harlan Coben has written a wonderfully suspenseful twisted thriller. From the moment you start reading THE STRANGER you will be drawn into the web of lies. Seemingly normal people make choices that will drastically change their lives and the lives of those around them. Secrets that should never be known are revealed and lives are damaged and lost.

When you pick up THE STRANGER to start reading make sure you don't have any other plans because putting it down is not an option. Harlan Coben has delivered an excellent book with THE STRANGER, you'll never think your secrets are safe again.