A Stranger Is Watching (1977) is a suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark.
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The main characters in the novel are Steve Peterson , whose wife Nina was murdered two years before, his six-year-old son Neil, who witnessed the murder, and Sharon Martin, a young journalist who befriends them both. The novel opens as Steve and Sharon debate capital punishment. A young man named Ronald Thompson has been sentenced to death for Nina's murder. Sharon is against the death penalty and tries to save Thompson. Unknown to them, Thompson is actually innocent. The real killer is a psychopath named August Rommel Taggart, Arty for short. He calls himself Foxy because Gen. Rommel was named the desert fox and his middle name is Rommel. . He kidnaps Sharon and Neil, hiding them under New York's famed Grand Central Station. The rest of the novel describes the race against time to save the three innocent victims.
[edit] Film adaptations
The novel was made into a film in 1982 starring Rip Torn, James Naughton, Kate Mulgrew and Shawn von Schreiber.
[edit] Reviews
The critics praised Clark for her ability to create both suspense and believable characters.
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