talking to strangers

International bestseller: “Riveting, moving, and tragic stories... that stay with you long after you read them.” James McConachie, Sunday Times Book of the Year. A routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we get other people so wrong? Why is it so difficult to detect a lie, read a face, or judge a stranger’s motives? Using stories of deception and fatal errors to raise doubts about our strategies for dealing with the unknown, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the dark side of human nature, where strangers are never simple, and misunderstanding them can have disastrous consequences.