With the dawn of each day come the familiar routines that bring solace to ordinary lives. Making the kids' lunches and seeing your husband off to work are typical occurrences in the life of a suburban housewife. But what if this morning your simple good-bye turns out to be the last time you ever see your husband alive? For Karen Friedman, that is exactly what happened. Charlie Friedman relishes the fact that he is able to provide an extremely desirable lifestyle for his wife and two children. A beautiful home, a vacation escape, and expensive cars validate his self-worth as only a man could perceive. The emotional side is the only casualty in his near-perfect life, but in his mind, the extras far exceed the deficit. As far as he is concerned, his balance sheet is perfectly aligned. That is until one fateful morning when on his way to work, the train he is supposedly on is blown to smithereens. Unfortunately for his family, all that is left behind are many unanswered questions, millions of dollars of missing money, and the legacy of a man who seemed to have deceived them all. Ty Hauck is a burly police detective who has secrets of his own that haunt his every move. When a hit- and-run accident goes down in the Freidman's hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut, Ty's radar is immediately put on alert as he soon discovers that these two cases are somehow connected. What unfolds is a masterful plot of deception and international espionage with Karen Friedman and her children trapped in the middle and with Ty being the only one who can possibly help them to escape. THE DARK TIDE is the second novel by the bright and talented rising star Andrew Gross, who is most well-known for co-authoring five New York Times Bestselling novels with James Patterson. Like his first solo project, THE BLUE ZONE, Gross packs a punch of action, suspense, and drama that leaves the reader fighting for more. Once again, Gross superbly delivers what his readers expect...the ultimate ride.

Book Summary

An explosion rips through New York City's Grand Central Station one morning, destroying the train Karen Friedman's husband, a successful hedge fund manager, is riding in to work. Days later, with many bodies still unidentifiable, Karen resigns herself to the awful truth: her husband of eighteen years is dead.

On that same day, a suspicious hit-and-run accident leaves a young man dead in Karen's hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut. Ty Hauck, a detective, becomes emotionally caught up in the case and finds a clue that shockingly connects the two seemingly unrelated events.

Months later, two men show up at Karen's home digging into Charles's business dealings. Hundreds of millions of dollars are missing—and the trail points squarely to Charles. With doubt suddenly cast on everything she has ever known, Karen, with Hauck, steps into a widening storm of hedge fund losses, international scams, and murder. And as the investigations converge, these two strangers touched by tragedy are pulled into a deepening relationship and unwittingly open the door to a twisted— and deadly—conspiracy.