In the Lake of the Woods

When long-hidden secrets about his past come to light, John Wade — a Vietnam veteran and recent candidate for the U.S. Senate — retreats with his wife, Kathy, to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. Within days of their arrival, Kathy mysteriously vanishes into the watery wilderness. As a search is begun, several explanations, all of them disturbing, rise to the surface in this unforgettable story about the vagaries of memory, love, and deception. “A gut-punch of a novel . . . O’Brien turns the thriller form inside out.” — seattle post-intelligencer “A memorable mystery story charged with haunting ambiguity . . . If any American novelist is creating more beautifully written, emotionally harrowing tales than Tim O’Brien, I don’t know who it could be.