He then breaks into a massive complex, where he discovers a secret base for the people who run the town. Beverly is soon after ripped apart by a mob in town on the orders of the people who run the town, and Ethan flees into the wilderness, where several humanoid creatures attempt to kill him. Ethan meets a woman named Beverly, who reveals she went missing one year before –in 1985 –while Ethan believes the year to be 2012.

Ethan begins to realize quickly that something is wrong with the town when the one road out actually circles back around to town, and when the people of town –including the sheriff –begin seeking to block his efforts to leave or do his job. But when he wakes up outside of town near a river with temporary amnesia, the locals are not forthcoming with answers to his questions. When the novel begins, Ethan has come to Wayward Pines in pursuit of two missing secret services agents.

The nail-bitingly suspenseful opening installment in Blake Crouch’s blockbuster Wayward Pines trilogy, Pines is at once a brilliant mystery tale and the first step into a genre-bending saga of suspense, science fiction, and horror.Pines is a science fiction thriller by Blake Crouch which follows the efforts of Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke to escape from the town of Wayward Pines, Idaho. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase.Īs the days pass, Ethan’s investigation 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?Įach step closer to the truth takes Ethan farther from the world he knew, from the man he was, until he must face a horrifying fact – he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident.

Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. The first book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade.

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