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Pines (Wayward Pines) Paperback – August 21, 2012

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The one-million copy bestseller that inspired the Fox TV show.

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

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309 pages
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English
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Thomas & Mercer
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August 21, 2012
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5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
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1612183956
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978-1612183954
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Blake Crouch on How the Television Series Twin Peaks Inspired Pines

On April 8, 1990, the pilot episode of Mark Frost and David Lynch's iconic television series, Twin Peaks, aired on ABC, and for a moment, the mystery of Who Killed Laura Palmer? held America transfixed. I was twelve at the time, and I will never forget the feeling that took hold of me as I watched this quirky show about a creepy town with damn fine coffee and brilliant cherry pie, where nothing was as it seemed.

Read on to find out what is was about Twin Peaks that inspired Pines at www.kindlepost.com.

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Starred Review Ethan Burke is on his way to the small town of Wayward Pines to find two fellow federal agents who have gone missing. He has a bad car accident on the edge of town, waking up in the hospital and not at all sure of what is going on. The psychiatrist on staff tells him that he has suffered a brain injury and warns him not to leave, but he takes off anyway. The town sheriff is less than helpful, and, with no ID or money, Burke can’t reach his superior or his wife, and he starts fearing for his sanity (reminiscent of Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island). Matters turn ominous when Burke finds the ravaged body of one of the missing agents and realizes he needs to run for his life. Clearly, despite the idyllic beauty of Wayward Pines, something is seriously out of kilter: a helpful bartender disappears, picnicking mothers turn homicidal, and seemingly innocent children display maniacal tendencies. The suspense builds to an almost unbearable point, culminating with a twist that ratchets it up even further. Fans of Stephen King, Peter Straub and F. Paul Wilson will appreciate this genre-bending, completely riveting thrill ride, which mixes suspense, horror, science fiction and dystopian nightmare all rolled up into one unputdownable book. — Stacy Alesi

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas & Mercer; Unabridged edition (August 21, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 309 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1612183956
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1612183954
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches

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Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include the New York Times bestseller Dark Matter, and the internationally bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. Crouch also created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. His latest book is Recursion, a sci-fi thriller about memory, and will be published in June 2019. He lives in Colorado.

To learn more about what he is doing, check out his website, www.blakecrouch.com, follow him on Twitter - @blakecrouch1 - or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/blakecrouchauthor

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A story about a federal agent being gaslighted by an entire town, but too stupid to figure it out

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2018

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The writing is good, the main character is bone stupid. From the very start an entire town is gas lighting him and he's just too stupid to pick up on it. The idea someone this oblivious to reality could be a federal agent, or tie his shoes without help even makes the entire story more a farce than a serious detective fantasy. I was willing to go along with the premise in the beginning, he's getting his bearing, OK I can deal with that, but then he never stop being stupid and missing the most obvious things. If you want a story about Chris Farley federal agent, this is your book. If you want Barney Fife, well keep moving cause the main character in this book makes Barney Fife look like Einstein.

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amandajadeh

Frustrating

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2017

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I love mystery and Sci fi and thought this book would be a good fit. I was not expecting to dislike such an overwhelmingly popular read.
I caught on pretty quick that the pines was unsafe and Ethan needed to get out of there, so it was frustrating for me to read chapter after chapter of him staying before he finally caught on and tried to escape.
I also tired of reading about him taking beating after beating before actually fighting back.
This guy's supposed to be a secret service agent and he's a total pushover.
I won't be reading the rest of this trilogy.

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Truly original speculative fiction

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2016

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You know the story, or at least you think you do. Our hero arrives in a small, out-of-the-way town in an unfamiliar part of the country . . . and everything seems off, just a little bit. There’s something strange going on, but it’s deep below the surface. Then the violence starts, and there’s no rational explanation. The suspense quickly becomes unbearable.

Been there, done that? Unlikely.

Been there, done that? Well, that’s what you’re likely to think much of the way through Pines, the first volume in Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy. I certainly did. In fact, given my aversion to horror stories, I became so frustrated that I practically tossed the book aside and looked for something more satisfying to read. Fortunately, I chose instead to read through to the end. Pines is not a horror story, at least not in the conventional sense. It’s . . . something else. If you enjoy speculative fiction, you’re likely to love this book. You’ve probably never read anything like it at all.

Thought-provoking speculative fiction

Although Pines comes across as a conventional mystery or horror story, it’s worth the wait. The thesis of the book (and of the trilogy) is truly original. You may find it difficult to stop thinking about the story for a long time after you’ve read it. It’s easy to see how the trilogy was so quickly shaped into Wayward Pines, a high-profile television series, now in its second season. The pilot was directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Matt Dillon and Carla Gugino star. All three names will be familiar to contemporary movie-goers and television fans.

An unlikely story becomes even less likely

The story seems straightforward. Two U.S. Secret Service agents have disappeared in a tiny rural Idaho town on an investigation involving financial crime. (The Secret Service is an arm of the U.S. Treasury. Its brief extends beyond protection of the President.) A second team of agents is sent in pursuit of the first two — then they also disappear.

In a highway collision, one of the two new agents dies. The other staggers about town in a daze with no memory of what happened. His wallet, his gun, and his briefcase are nowhere to be found. Then the mysteries really begin.

Want to know more of the story? Read the book. It will give your mind a workout.

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Justin Robinson-Prickett

Frustrating

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2019

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This is a nifty concept horribly executed. The ending twist is good enough, but unfortunately the writing is so amateurish, it loses all impact. The plot, such that it is, is structured as a long chase (which is the best way to make certain the main character never makes an interesting choice), and we never get a chance to immerse ourselves in what's supposed to be the Twin Peasky weirdness of Wayward Pines. All of a sudden the sheriff is assaulting Our Designated Hero, and we're running through the Purge. But beyond the mechanics of the plot, the writing is just terrible. It's intended to be written in tough-guy bursts, but comes off reading like a first-year screenplay.

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Intriguing and suspenseful

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2020

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I spent about half the time I was reading this book wondering what in the hell is going on! This was a good thing. I won't tell you more about that because I can't without giving away some of what makes it so... There were two things about this book that were somewhat disconcerting. There are places where nomenclature is used incorrectly and some places where it was placed (correctly) but not necessary. These were minor and did not affect the story. It just created a speed-bump in the flow. Late in the book he has been cooking along telling a good story when all of a sudden he gets into his own treatise on pollution and global warming. It comes on so abruptly that it is almost like it was written by someone else and inserted in. After getting through that the story resumes and it concludes in the same way that it has been told before. Don't take the criticism above as a reason to not read this book. It is well worth the the time and effort to read. Before writing this review I purchased the second book in the series...

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A Wild Ride From Start To Finish

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2019

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Blake Crouch is a new favorite author of mine and after reading Dark Matter and Recurrence I thought I’d check out one of his series. This book was a trip and a half.

At first, I thought I was in Twin Peaks

But then it seemed a little bit shudder Island

Mixed with a small dose of Mayberry and The Stepford Wives

And just when I thought it couldn’t get anymore strange…IT DID and I thought OMG are we in the Matrix?

But wait there’s more. As if that isn’t enough to make you scratch your head and say WTF is happening Blake Crouch turns the dial up to 11 and the purge made an appearance.

Only to be topped with the explanation of wtf is really going on.

*Mind Blown*

And then it was over and I sat there thinking what the heck just happened?

I really can’t tell you anything about this book without spoiling everything in this book and so just go, get it and experience the craziness that is happening in Wayward Pines, Idaho. I don’t think that you will be disappointed you went along for the ride.

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Rob Ash

Cracking book but I have gripes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2020

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Great book but I think Crouch just tries too hard and ends up over-egging his own pudding. Let me explain.
This is the third Blake Crouch book I've read and the previous two, Dark Matter and Recursion, I had some major issues with, and I think I've finally realised what my problem with them is. I think he simply adds too much, he tries too hard. Just because you like sugar in your coffee you don't dump ten spoonfuls of it in there because it'll destroy it, you add just enough to make it just right. Someone needs to confiscate Mr Crouch's spoon!
My criticisms come from a place of frustration because I love these books, especially this one. Pines is probably my favourite to date, but there's always a section or two in his books where I end up pulling out my hair, or I would if I had any, and screaming 'Why did you do that!' and Pines is just the same. Which is really unfortunate because this book could have made my all-time favourites list.
The beginning of the book is a complete mind-bender, a full-on psychological trip. And I was loving it. Not knowing what the hell is going on, and the tension of having to discover at the same pace as the protagonist is fantastic, and Crouch does it brilliantly in this book. But then things degenerate a little into a bit of a trope, but that's ok, I can live with that, until we get to THAT scene. Where the town's entire population, for some unfathomably ridiculous reason in Halloween dress, go on a murder frenzy. NO NO NO! It doesn't work, it makes no sense and it just doesn't fit at all. Why!? I'm trying to be as vague as possible here in case you haven't read the book. But this just cheapens the writing and utterly destroys all the beautiful work Crouch put in prior to this.
Then there's the rock-face climb, tense, dramatic and gripping...until the pack of creepy alien-looking creatures turn up out of the blue. NO NO NO! It's not needed! It's cheap titillation which kills the real tension the main character is going through. And the fact that they are dispatched so easily and quickly is just comical.

Ok, after all that please let me apologise, I don't usually go off on one like that, but this book could have been so damn good! I've still given it four stars, even though it really, really, should have been a solid five-star book. And yes, I have the second and third books, Wayward and The Last Town, and I will be reading them. I'm actually intrigued to see how a strong and driven man like Ethan manages to handle working under a morally bankrupt man like Pilcher, and the murder frenzying townsfolk of course...if I must.

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hibbzie.

More than deserves a five out of five star rating. . .(as always no spoilers)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2017

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Having never seen the TV series Wayward Pines I didn't have a clue what it was about or what to expect from the book, but I'm really glad I took a chance and bought this first of the trilogy, in fact I have to admit that I bought parts two and three BEFORE I finished book one. For me, this book more than deserves a five out of five star rating.

Ethan, a secret service agent wakes up near a fast flowing river battered and bruised in Wayward Pines, all he can remember is his name, his wife and child, the fact that him and another agent were sent to Wayward Pines to find two missing agents last known to be there, and that he was in a bad car accident in which his partner was killed.

As he tries to track down the missing agents he realises that he cannot leave town. If I said anymore I would be giving away spoilers and that's not my thing, so, suffice to say, I think this is one of the best books I have read in quite a while.

Highly recommended.

13 people found this helpful

5t4n5 Dot Com

Awesome...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2019

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I started to watch the TV series a couple of years ago, just because Juliette Lewis was in it. And then they had the utter gall to kill her off in the third episode. WTF!!! So i binned watching the TV version and decided to read the books instead.

So how was the book? Awesome!

I was very surprised to see this listed as ‘horror’ in Amazon. I would definitely put this in dystopian sci-fi, i didn’t notice any horror, just the normal dystopian sci-fi kind of stuff.

I’ve previously read Blake’s book, ‘Dark Matter’, which was exceptionally well written and Pines is just as good. Blake does a fantastic job of putting his protagonists into some really mind bending, disturbing situations and putting the reader well and truly into the protagonist’s mind.

All in all, a great start to this trilogy and i’m diving straight into book 2, ‘Wayward’, very optimistic for more of Blake’s style of writing — i’m becoming a big fan.

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John

Ludicrous preachy ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2017

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Another book I read through to the end when I wanted to give up after a few chapters. Having read. DARK matter which I enjoyed I thought I'd give his trilogy a go. I'm stopping at book 1. I like my sci fi but I have to have sense of... It could happen. From the off it never gripped me and I didn't bond with ANY of the main characters. It then trails off into a ludicrous preachy ending

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Erik Peterson

Good writing, excellent page turner

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 17, 2018

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I love some of the descriptions in his writing. There is both an efficient use of words yet beautifully written descriptions of scenes. A genuinely engaging writer without clichéd descriptions.

This book is mystery/suspense throughout most of it. Despite not really thinking the conclusion was as great as the rest of the book, the story and the relationships were interesting and really was a page turner. An enjoyable writer who deserves popularity. Maybe he was hoping to make some moral statement with the book, which is pretty flat really, but despite this the book is great.

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