The Stranger (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series), by Harlan Coben
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Adam and Hannah confront the shocking secret on which their marriage is built - leaving Adam wondering whether he ever truly knew Hannah at all.
The Stranger (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series), by Harlan Coben- Amazon Sales Rank: #410818 in Books
- Brand: Coben, Harlan
- Published on: 2015-03-26
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.60" h x 1.10" w x 5.80" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 499 pages
Review 'With clever use of technology, convincing characters and a strong emotional heart, you're effortlessly swept along to a tense and dramatic conclusion. Smart stuff from a classy operator.' -- Deirdre O'Brien SUNDAY MIRROR 'The master of the twisty psychological thriller is back with another awesomely gripping mystery.' -- Boyd Tonkin HEAT 'The twists come satisfyingly thick and fast as the plots merge before the tangled web of evens unravels into an enjoyable and somewhat surprising conclusion.' SUNDAY EXPRESS
About the Author Harlan Coben is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty previous novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Missing You, Six Years, Stay Close, Live Wire, Caught, Long Lost, and Hold Tight as well as the Myron Bolitar series and, more recently, a series aimed at young adults, featuring Myron's nephew, Mickey Bolitar. The winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, he lives in New Jersey.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1The stranger didn’t shatter Adam’s world all at once. That was what Adam Price would tell himself later, but that was a lie. Adam somehow knew right away, right from the very first sentence, that the life he had known as a content suburban married father of two was forever gone. It was a simple sentence on the face of it, but there was something in the tone, something knowing and even caring, that let Adam know that nothing would ever be the same. “You didn’t have to stay with her,” the stranger said. They were in the American Legion Hall in Cedarfield, New Jersey. Cedarfield was a town loaded up with wealthy hedge fund managers and bankers and other financial masters-of-the-universe types. They liked to drink beer in the American Legion Hall be- cause it was comfortable slumming, a way to pretend that they were salt-of-the-earth good ol’ boys, like something in a Dodge Ram commercial, when they were anything but. Adam stood by the sticky bar. There was a dartboard behind him. Neon signs advertised Miller Lite, but Adam had a bottle of Budweiser in his right hand. He turned to the man, who had just sidled up to him, and even though Adam already knew the answer, he asked the man, “Are you talking to me?” The guy was younger than most of the fathers, thinner, almost gaunt, with big, piercing blue eyes. His arms were white and reedy with a hint of a tattoo showing beneath one of the short sleeves. He was wearing a baseball cap. He wasn’t quite a hipster, but there was something of a wonk attitude coming off him, like some guy who ran a tech department and never saw the sun. The piercing blue eyes held Adam’s with an earnestness that made him want to turn away. “She told you she was pregnant, right?” Adam felt his grip on the bottle tighten. “That’s why you stayed. Corinne told you she was pregnant.” It was right then that Adam felt some kind of switch go off in his chest, as if someone had tripped the red digital timer on some movie bomb and now it had started to tick down. Tick, tick, tick, tick. “Do I know you?” Adam asked. “She told you she was pregnant,” the stranger continued. “Corinne, I mean. She told you she was pregnant and then she lost the baby.” The American Legion Hall was loaded up with town dads sporting those white baseball T-shirts with the three-quarter sleeves and either baggy cargo shorts or perfectly no-assed Dad jeans. Lots of them wore baseball caps. Tonight was the fourth-, fifth-, and sixth- grade boys’ lacrosse draft and A-team selections. If you ever wanted to witness type As behaving as such in their natural habitat, Adam thought, watch when parents get involved in their own offsprings’ team selections. The Discovery Channel should film this. “You felt obligated to stay, am I right?” the man asked. “I don’t know who the hell—” “She lied, Adam.” The younger man spoke with such conviction, not just as though he knew for certain but that, at the end of the day, he had Adam’s best interest at heart. “Corinne made it all up. She was never pregnant.” The words kept landing like punches, dazing Adam, sapping his resistance, leaving him shaken and confused and ready to take a standing eight count. He wanted to fight back, grab the guy by the shirt, toss him across the room for insulting his wife like this. But he didn’t for two reasons. One, there was the whole dazed-like-taking-punches, sapped- resistance thing. Two, something about the way the man spoke, something about the guy’s confident tone, the damn conviction in his voice, made Adam start thinking it might be smartest to listen. “Who are you?” Adam asked. “Does it matter?” “Yeah, it does.” “I’m the stranger,” he said. “The stranger with important knowledge. She lied to you, Adam. Corinne. She was never pregnant. It was all a ruse to get you back.” Adam shook his head. He swam through, tried to stay rational and calm. “I saw the pregnancy test.” “Fake.” “I saw the sonogram.” “Again fake.” He held up a hand before Adam could say more. “And yes, so was the stomach. Or should I say stomachs. Once Corinne started to show, you never saw her naked, right? What did she do, claim some kind of late-night sickness so you wouldn’t have sex? That’s what happens most times. So when the miscarriage occurs, you can kinda look back on the whole thing and realize the pregnancy was difficult right from the start.” A booming voice from the other side of the hall called out, “Okay, guys, grab a fresh beer and let’s get this show on the road.” The voice belonged to Tripp Evans, the president of the lacrosse league, a former Madison Avenue ad exec and a pretty good guy. The other dads started to grab aluminum chairs, the kind you use for your kid’s school concert, from a rack and placed them in a circle around the room. Tripp Evans looked over at Adam, spotted the undoubtedly pale expression on his face, and frowned his concern. Adam shook him off and turned back to the stranger. “Who the hell are you?” “Think of me as your savior. Or like the friend who just released you from prison.” “You’re full of crap.” All conversation had pretty much ended. The voices were hushed now, the sounds of scraping chairs echoing in the still hall. The fathers were getting their game faces on for the draft. Adam hated this. He wasn’t even supposed to be here—Corinne was. She was the treasurer of the lacrosse board, but her school had changed the scheduling of her teachers’ conference in Atlantic City, and even though this was the biggest day of the year for Cedarfield lacrosse— indeed the main reason Corinne had become so active—Adam had been forced to step in for her. “You should be thanking me,” the man said. “What are you talking about?” For the first time, the man smiled. It was, Adam couldn’t help but notice, a kind smile, the smile of a healer, of a man who just wants to do the right thing. “You’re free,” the stranger said. “You’re a liar.” “You know better, don’t you, Adam?” From across the room, Tripp Evans called, “Adam?” He turned toward them. Everyone was seated now except Adam and the stranger. “I have to go now,” the stranger whispered. “But if you really need proof, check your Visa card. Look for a charge to Novelty Funsy.” “Wait—” “One more thing.” The man leaned in close. “If I were you, I’d probably run DNA tests on your two boys.” Tick, tick, tick . . . ka-boom. “What?” “I have no evidence on that, but when a woman is willing to lie about something like this, well, it’s a pretty good bet it isn’t her first time.” And then, with Adam dazed anew by this final accusation, the stranger hurried out the door.
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170 of 188 people found the following review helpful. Enjoyable story with disappointing ending By TChris Adam Price is living the dream. He has a wife and two sons and he earns a decent income. He is convinced that he would do everything in his power to keep his family safe and happy. But the dream gives way to reality when a stranger tells Adam that his wife faked her pregnancy and miscarriage to keep him from leaving. The stranger provides evidence of that contention and then suggests, while admitting that he's only speculating, that Adam might want to do a DNA test to be sure that he's really the father of his sons.The Stranger's next encounters are with Heidi Dann, who learns something unpleasant about a family member, and Michaela Siegel, who learns the truth about an incident that had a serious impact upon her young life. Why the stranger drops bombshells on people and how he learns their secrets remain a mystery through much of the novel. What seems like a fairly straightforward crime in the novel's first half becomes more complex as the second half of the story begins to unfold.Saying much more about the plot would be a crime in itself, so I won't. The novel's background details, ranging from female bodybuilding competition to Adam's attempt to prevent the city from seizing a client's home are just as interesting as the main story. I wasn't entirely convinced by the stranger's motivation for messing with people's lives, but the world is full of people who are motivated by odd beliefs so it was easy to set those doubts aside.The ending comes as something of an anti-climax, in part because the reveal of the main bad guy is fairly obvious and in part because the actions of a supporting character at the end of the novel struck me as unlikely. Despite a mildly disappointing ending, I enjoyed reading The Stranger. The pace is brisk, the characters are likable, and my interest in the plot never abated.
71 of 84 people found the following review helpful. 4 1/2 Stars -- "Unputdownable" Though Far From Perfect! By Bobbewig If you've read other books by Harlan Coben, you know that once you start his books they grab hold of your attention from page one and never let go until the last word on the last page. The Stranger, Coben's latest, is no exception. If The Stranger is your first "Coben," be prepared to escape from reality for a few days because once you start it, you won't be able to put it down. It may get to the point that because you'll be spending so much time immersed in this book people in your real world will be referring to you as "The Stranger" -- sorry about that!Without getting into the plot summary, which can be found in the Amazon Book Description above, The Stranger, as stated in the jacket cover, proves that a well-placed lie can help build a wonderful life -- and a secret has the same explosive power to destroy it.Is The Stranger great literature? No, of course not. Does it challenge your credulity at times and have some character development issues? Yes, it does; which are issues not atypical of a Coben book. The Stranger is, however, a very suspenseful, highly plot-driven book filled with an abundance of twists and turns and very serviceable characters with which most readers will be able to relate. It is escapist reading at or near the top of its genre and, for me, it is Coben's most enjoyable book in a while. I'm giving The Stranger a 4-star -- actually a 4 1/2 star rating -- instead of 5-stars because I felt a few of the twists and turns, while interesting and surprising, were a bit contrived. Nonetheless, this is a very minor issue and should not hold you back for an instant from reading The Stranger. Personally, I couldn't turn the pages fast enough to find out what happened next. Enjoy!
113 of 138 people found the following review helpful. A solid Coben mystery on the insidious nature of the information age By outwest Harlan Coben is one of the best mystery and suspense writers in the business so there are always high expectations which come with his books. For the most part, Coben does not disappoint with his latest book,The Stranger, an addictive mystery novel driven by great characters.The Stranger is a mystery set around a seemingly happy and mundane family Adam and wife, Corinne, and their two sons Ryan and Thomas who live in a nice suburban neighborhood in New Jersey. But, upon meeting a stranger at an American Legion Hall, Adam's life starts to unwind with a slow burning paranoia. The Stranger is a normal looking guy who knows things about Adam's wife and family. He knows things about his wife that a stranger should not. With each piece of information, Adam is thrown deeper and deeper into doubt and disbelief about his own reality.In classic Coben style we have elements of mystery, strong characters, and relevant and current themes as here where the book relates to the prevalence of information in the internet age. The stories herein have a strong edge to them as they feel like situations which could actually be occurring and are realistically drawn as they begin in the normal and mundane world and then take a hard left into intrigue. However, The Stranger is a bit different than Coben's other books, and though it has classic twists, turns, suspense, and wit, the book tends to slow down in the middle as its flips between characters and the confusion that has ensued because of mysterious stranger. The book also has parts which are not particularly believable and downright strange. That said, the whole the story heads to a classic Coben stunning conclusion, which makes up for the pacing issues.On the whole, though not at his best, Coben fans will probably like the book. Any general mystery reader will enjoy it too.
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