The Stranger
(Sprache: Englisch)
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A secret destroys a man's perfect life and sends him on a collision course with a deadly conspiracy in this shocking thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben.
The Stranger appears out of nowhere,...
A secret destroys a man's perfect life and sends him on a collision course with a deadly conspiracy in this shocking thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben.
The Stranger appears out of nowhere,...
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NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES!A secret destroys a man's perfect life and sends him on a collision course with a deadly conspiracy in this shocking thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben.
The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. Their identity is unknown. Their motives are unclear. Their information is undeniable. Then they whisper a few words in your ear and disappear, leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered world...
Adam Price has a lot to lose: a comfortable marriage to a beautiful woman, two wonderful sons, and all the trappings of the American Dream: a big house, a good job, a seemingly perfect life.
Then he runs into the Stranger. When he learns a devastating secret about his wife, Corinne, he confronts her, and the mirage of perfection disappears as if it never existed at all. Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corinne's deception, and realizes that if he doesn't make exactly the right moves, the conspiracy he's stumbled into will not only ruin lives-it will end them.
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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
... mehr
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
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
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Autoren-Porträt von Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including I Will Find You, The Match, Win, Fool Me Once, Stay Close, and The Stranger, as well as the award-winning Myron Bolitar series. Coben has more than eighty million books in print in more than forty languages worldwide, and several of his novels have been made into Netflix series. The winner of Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, he lives in New Jersey.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Harlan Coben
- 2016, 480 Seiten, Maße: 10,8 x 19 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Dutton
- ISBN-10: 0451414136
- ISBN-13: 9780451414137
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.06.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for The StrangerCoben describes Adam s search for the truth behind these allegations and the identity of the person who made them with masterly skill, springing surprises, raising stakes, seamlessly integrating other victims of the stranger into Adam s tale. He s also a smooth, funny writer. New York Times Book Review
This page-turner is one stranger that readers will want to meet. Associated Press
Seamless storytelling at a breathtaking pace. Houston Chronicle
Coben s latest stand-alone is a great story for people who like to examine the ephemeral nature of those strings that bind our dreams to our reality. Library Journal
The Stranger isn t just a great thriller, it s a stunningly effective, probative novel about one man s search, essentially, for his own identity...Flat-out great and not to be missed. Providence Journal
Another suspenseful thriller whose gripping and intricate plot is completely plausible, and chilling. The Huffington Post
Thoroughly entertaining. Publishers Weekly
Coben can always be relied on to generate thrills from the simplest premises, but his finest tales maintain a core of logic throughout the twists. This 100-proof nightmare ranks among his most potent. Kirkus Reviews
The startling climax reinforces the novel s theme that the trappings of the American dream affluence, fine home, family don t necessarily protect one from violence...[The Stranger] carries his trademark asset: a plot that pretty much defies readers to guess the outcome. The Columbus Dispatch
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