Pines (Digital Sample)

by Blake Crouch

Try a free 53-page sample of the international runaway bestseller is now a Major Television Event from executive producer M. Night Shyamalan, starring Matt Dillon and premiering May 14th on FOX.

Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels…off. As the days pass, Ethan’s investigation into the disappearance of his colleagues turns up more questions than answers. Why can’t he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn’t anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what is the purpose of the electrified fences surrounding the town? Are they meant to keep the residents in? Or something else out? Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan further from the world he thought he knew, from the man he thought he was, until he must face a horrifying fact—he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive.

2013 International Thriller Award Nominee

56 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 5, 2015

About the author

Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the forthcoming novel, Dark Matter, for which he is writing the screenplay for Sony Pictures. His international-bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, that was Summer 2015’s #1 show. With Chad Hodge, Crouch also created Good Behavior, the TNT television show starring Michelle Dockery based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He has written more than a dozen novels that have been translated into over thirty languages and his short fiction has appeared in numerous publications including Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Crouch lives in Colorado with his family.

Reviews

[Glitter · Rating 5 out of 5]

After a mysterious accident, a man wakes up in a town that defies explanation. As he uncovers unsettling details about the town's isolation and his own identity, the story builds tension through layers of mystery and psychological uncertainty. A suspenseful exploration of control, memory, and survival.

[Debbie Kramer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good and engaging. Dystopian novel. A series on FOX network.

[terry morris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Awesome

Should've had it show the car crash in the beginning of the book, didn't show o w that,but all seems to be right in place as the show.

[Tracy]

WOW, just WOW!
I love it! And there is more to come.
And, with the TV series being on at roughly the same time, it is coming to life before my eyes.
Thank you Mr. Crouch!