Talking to Strangers

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spendsyears undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The falseconviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong?Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger'smotives?

Through a series of encounters andmisunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases -Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darkerside of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreadingthem can have disastrous consequences.

No one challenges ourshared assumptions like Malcolm Gladwell. Here he uses stories of deceitand fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with theunknown, inviting us to rethink our thinking in these troubled times.