Here are the synopses for the three books: Pines Think Twin Peaks meets the X-Files and you won’t be far off.

Unable to get straight answers about who has his identification, and why he can’t seem to raise his wife on the phone, Burke soon comes across one terrible secret after another.Īnd yes, it’s a paranormal thriller. He was T-boned by a truck, somehow surviving. The last thing Burke remembers was being sent to Wayward Pines to find two missing fellow agents who worked with him in Seattle (why were these secret service agents based in Seattle? No idea – but your disbelief will soon be suspended anyhow). Although he wakes in incredible pain, he’s quick to note that something in the idyllic little town seems a little weird. In the opening pages of Pines, the first book in Blake Crouch’s incredible Wayward Pines trilogy, secret service agent Ethan Burke has arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks earlier. Read it now before all you can imagine is Matt Dillon in the read role. Crouch lives in Colorado with his family.The Bottom Line: A jaw-dropping paranormal thriller series that is clearly deserving of the TV deal it landed. 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. With Chad Hodge, Crouch also created Good Behavior, the TNT television show starring Michelle Dockery based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. Night Shyamalan, that was Summer 2015’s #1 show.

His international-bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, executive produced by M. He is the author of the forthcoming novel, Dark Matter, for which he is writing the screenplay for Sony Pictures. In 2015, the novels were adapted into the television series Wayward Pines.īlake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. The novels are Pines (2012), Wayward (2013), and The Last Town (2014). Secret Service agent Ethan Burke as he unravels the mystery surrounding his unanticipated arrival in the small town of Wayward Pines, Idaho, following a devastating car accident. The Wayward Pines Trilogy (2012–2014) is a mystery/thriller/science fiction novel series by American author Blake Crouch.

Pines by Blake Crouch