#1 New York Times Bestseller In Mitch Albom's profound new novel of hope and faith, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from the sea. He claims to be "the Lord." And he says he can only save them if they all believe in him. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in." I am the Lord," the man whispers. - So begins Mitch Albom's most beguiling and inspiring novel yet. - Albom has written of heaven in the celebrated number one bestsellers The Five People You Meet in Heaven and The First Phone Call from Heaven. What might the Lord look, sound and act like? In The Stranger in the Lifeboat, Albom keeps us guessing until the end: Is this strange and quiet man really who he claims to be? What actually happened to cause the explosion? Are the survivors already in heaven, or are they in hell? The story is narrated by Benji, one of the passengers, who recounts the events in a notebook that is later discovered--a year later--when the empty life raft washes up on the island of Montserrat. - It falls to the island's chief inspector, Jarty Le - Fleur, a man battling his own demons, to solve the mystery of what really happened.