Guest Reviewer: Justin Cronin on The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian Justin Cronin is the bestselling author of The Passage, as well as Mary and O'Neil, which won the Pen/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize, and The Summer Guest. To put the matter succinctly: The first chapter of Chris Bohjalian's The Night Strangers is so riveting, I dropped the book in the tub. I spent the next half-hour running a hair-dryer over its soaked pages. By the time the task was complete the book was as swollen as a Reuben sandwich. It was clear to me that if the first twenty pages were any indication, I'd better read the rest somewhere safe and secure, with neither water nor fire, and while I was at it, some good soundproofing, lest I freak out my children by shrieking like an acrophobe on a roller coaster. I wasn't wrong. Describing Bohjalian's thirteenth novel isn't a simple matter. Its dovetailing plots are so seamlessly interwoven--as tightly screwed together as the thirty-nine carriage bolts sealing the mysterious door in the Linton's (very creepy) basement--I don't want to give too much away. Bu