"The Stranger" first hit the public in March of last year and immediately snares the readers attention and engages the senses with mystery and intrigue.
This book integrates family life with grand theft, murder, blackmail and prostitution, then belts the reader hard with its ending. New York Times best selling author Harlan Coben first seized my attention with "Deal Breaker," the first in the series of the fictional phenomenal character Myron Bolitar. In "Deal Breaker," one of the laughing moments for me was when a former female wrestler, Esperanza Diaz was a member of FLOW, Fabulous Ladies Of Wrestling. Originally these lady wrestlers were to be known as the Beautiful Ladies Of Wrestling, but the acronym BLOW didn't seem right.
"The Stranger" is not as entertaining as the Bolitar series, but it works extremely well and at less the 390 pages in large print, it's an afternoon read. The story gets going right away when the main character Adam Price is approached by a complete stranger who tells Adam disturbing secrets about his wife Corinne then vanishes out of his life.
When a massive amount of money turns up missing from the lacrosse league treasury, Tripp Evans, the president of the lacrosse league becomes a pivotal character in the story and the wild plot of "The Stranger" becomes a whirl wind of what in the wide world of sports is going on. Cold blooded murder is justified and acceptable in rare cases, or is it? Read the book and judge for yourself.
