A man gets the terrible news that his beautiful wife of more than a decade has died in a fiery crash with a gasoline tanker truck. A week later, going through her things, he finds hidden in an old trunk several fake passports, a 9-mm pistol, half a million in cash and other items that suggest his spouse had some hidden life as some kind of spy. He wonders just who the heck had he married -- and sets out to find out the truth. 5-Stars! "Deeply intriguing and addictively readable... Oster tells a gripping story about the complexities of love, loss, and the secrets that can lie beneath the surface of even the closest relationships....Beyond the spy thriller aspect, the novel delves into themes of love, loss, identity, and self-discovery with depth and nuance...a gripping plot. A page-turner . -- Prairies Review 5-Stars! "an intriguing novel... I see no reason not to give this book the perfect rating it deserves. The mystery, spycraft, and intrigue all make this book worth the time to read. I recommend this book to lovers of spy and mystery novels. --Online Book Club "I loved this book! It was gripping till the very end and had amazing plot and character development. The suspense was handled very beautifully and I was glad that it was unpredictable. -- Online Book Club Patrick Oster, author of six additional cyber-thrillers, spy, and espionage novels, has created a story in a genre of its own by introducing a surprising, suspenseful romantic element into a crime story. -- Authors Reading "The Man Who Fell in Love With His Wife by Patrick Oster reignited my love for thrillers. This page-turner captured my imagination, and I could not put it down once I started reading." --Readers Favorite Critical Praise for Patrick Oster's last novel, "The Sleeper List:"   "...readers will be on the edges of their seats. A gripping espionage thriller with an indelible cast." -- Kirkus Reviews             "I loved this book! It was gripping till the very end and had amazing plot and character development. The suspense was handled very beautifully and I was glad that it was unpredictable. -- Online Book Club Patrick Oster, a lawyer and prize-winning journalist who covered the White House, the Supreme Court, the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency before becoming a foreign correspondent in Latin America and Europe for a decade, has published six novels before "The Man Who Fell in Love With His Wife." They are: "The Commuter," a comic thriller, "The Hacker Chronicles," a cyber-thriller, "The German Club," a thriller set at the fall of the Berlin Wall, "The Amazon Detective Agency," a murder mystery, "The Obituary Writer," a murder mystery, and "The Sleeper List," which won Readers Favorite's gold medal as the best espionage thriller of 2022. For more details, visit his Amazon author page. Oster also published a non-fiction book, "The Mexicans: a Personal Portrait of a People," which was a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection.