Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know. How do we recognize when a stranger is in need of help, or dangerous? In Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everything from the relationship between Fedel Castro and the CIA to the Jerry Sandusky scandel at Penn State to ask one question: is the way we go about talking to strangers all wrong?(This book may contain a small, black sharpie mark on the bottom edge, so that it can't be returned to a different wholesaler.)