His burglaries-for which he admitted feeling “ashamed”-frightened residents at first. He broke into nearby cottages, where he stole only what he needed to survive, including food, clothing, and magazines. There, he parked his car and, carrying only a backpack and a tent, “stepped into the trees and walked away.” Knight built a shelter deep in the woods, where he camped outdoors even during the bitterest of Maine winters.
Without saying a word to friends or family, he went on a road trip that eventually led him to the shores of Moosehead Lake in Maine. Then, when he was 20, he suddenly quit his job. Knight’s boyhood and adolescence had been ordinary his most outstanding traits were his shyness and penchant for solitude. Fascinated, the author sought out the “North Pond hermit” to learn why he had turned his back on society and understand the challenges he now faced with reintegration.
Police officers had arrested Knight for burglary, but when they questioned him further, they discovered that their suspect had been living alone in the wild for 27 years. While scanning the news online, Finkel ( True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa, 2005) came across the story of Christopher Knight. THE STRANGER Harlan’s next stand alone thriller is available now.A journalist’s account of a Massachusetts man who went deep into the Maine woods to live a life of solitude and self-sufficiency. 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. 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. Then he whispers a few words in your ear and disappears, leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered world.Īdam 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. The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Harlan Coben delivers his most shocking thriller yet, proving that a well-placed lie can help build a wonderful life– and a secret has the same explosive power to destroy it.
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