Ethan Burke is a character I can relate to and I felt invested in the entire time. The premise for Pines is intriguing, and the execution superlative. 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.Ģ013 International Thriller Award Nomineeīlake Crouch is a gifted author whose imaginative abilities are astounding. As the days pass, Ethan’s investigation into the disappearance of his colleagues turns up more questions than answers. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels…off. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. 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 clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. The one-million copy bestseller that inspired the Fox TV show.

I listened to the audiobook version of Pines, published by Brilliance Audio. Nevertheless, I encourage you to watch it, as it is highly entertaining. This series of books launched an excellent TV show on Fox a few years back that, unfortunately, only last two seasons. I find the writing process endlessly mysterious and wonderful.Pines by Blake Crouch is the first book in the Wayward Pines Trilogy. They suddenly clicked together, like puzzle pieces, and I was off and running.

While we were in Chicago two years ago, I was pitching each of these ideas to him separately, when it occurred to me they were actually all part of the same story. The novelist Marcus Sakey is one of my good friends, and we always meet up at the inception stage of a new book to pressure-check each other on our ideas. And the last was about a man being hopelessly lost in time. Another involved the idea of meeting yourself. I tried several times to write a version of Dark Matter… getting into SPOILER TERRITORY HERE… Three separate storylines had been teasing me, and I’d tried and failed to write them all separately. I tried several times to write a version of Dark Matter… getting i …more For the last decade, I’ve wanted to write a story that hinges on quantum mechanics. Blake Crouch For the last decade, I’ve wanted to write a story that hinges on quantum mechanics.

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