'What are you thinking, Amy? The question I've
asked most often during our marriage, if not out
loud, if not to the person who could answer. I
suppose these questions stormcloud over every
marriage: What are you thinking? How are you
feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each
other? What will we do?' Just how well can you
ever know the person you love? This is the
question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the
morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when
his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police
immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal
that she was afraid of him, that she kept
secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A
police examination of his computer shows strange
searches. He says they aren't his. And then
there are the persistent calls on his mobile
phone. So what really did happen to Nick's
beautiful wife? And what was in that
half-wrapped box left so casually on their
marital bed? In this novel, marriage truly is
the art of war ...