Plum Pictures has acquired the rights for the big-screen adaptation of Harlan Coben’s thriller “The Innocent,” according to Variety.

Coben also wrote “Tell No One,” which French actor-director Guillaume Canet turned into a successful big-screen mystery. I haven’t seen the film yet but I hear it’s quite compelling.

According to the trade, "The Innocent" centers on a middle-class New Jersey boy who goes to a prison after jumping into a drunken brawl to defend a friend and discovers when he gets out that he can’t get past his history.

Coben recently published “Hold Tight,” which quickly stormed the New York Times bestseller list.