"They wouldn't do that" --motivation in fiction. Reading the book SIX YEARS by **SPOILERS**

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Harlan Coben (well, actually, listening to it. But when I get something more appealing to listen to,
I'll probably abandon it.)

The protagonist is a 34-year-old poli sci college professor. He goes to a small town where he attended
a writing retreat six years ago. Small-town LE hassles him. He is a smart mouth to them. Luckily for him,
they let him go on his way.

A college professor, 34 years old, wouldn't do that. That sounds like something a 20-year-old smartass, certainly not
a college professor, would do. Unless the guy was mentally off, I just don't find it believable that a college professor,
who seems well-adjusted in most ways, except that he's obsessed with this woman he had a thing with six years ago, would
do that.

If anybody else has read this book, please tell me how it turns out. It's not on wikipedia. I don't want to read all the way
through it (or listen) but I wouldn't mind knowing what happened.

I think that the guy Natalie married was involved in some kind of government top-secret mess, and she is now in the witness
protection program.