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. 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. The phone book was the slimmest he'd ever seen, and he stood there thumbing through it, hoping for some revelatory. They’re told what to eat, where to work, and who to marry.

After a car accident leaves him stranded in the last town, he learns that the people who live there have no control over their lives. The first book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade As the first book in the series (sometimes referred to as Wayward Pines: 1), Pines introduces Ethan Burke and the town where he’s trapped. Pines is vaguely reminiscent of Shyamalan’s last decent film, 2004’s The Village, the one about a secluded 19th-century community terrified of mythical monsters.

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