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Dark Matter

by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter

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ISBN13: 9781101904244
ISBN10: 1101904240



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A mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy.

"Are you happy with your life?"

Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.

Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.

Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend."

In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.

Is it this world or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could’ve imagined — one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.

Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human — a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.

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"Exceptional. An exciting, ingeniously plotted adventure about love, regret, and quantum superposition. It’s been a long time since a novel sucked me in and kept me turning pages the way this one did." Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of The Martian

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"Might be the most helter-skelter, race-to-the-finish-line thriller you’ll read all year, with a clever, mind-boggling final twist." The Guardian

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"Draws on questions and anxieties we all wrestle with in the dark hours… Crouch has invested [sci-fi motifs] with scientific plausibility, and more unusually, with emotional depth." Wall Street Journal

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"A fast, tasty read with a killer twist. It’s a whole bag of barbecue chips… just sitting there waiting for you to devour in one long rush." NPR.org

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"You’ll gulp Dark Matter down in one afternoon, or more likely one night… Alternate-universe science fiction [and] a countdown thriller in which the hero must accomplish an impossible task to save his family. There’s always another door to open, and another page to turn." New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Blake Crouch is best known for the Wayward Pines trilogy, which has sold more than a million copies and was adapted into a prime-time event series on FOX. He lives in Colorado.

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EYJ , May 14, 2017 (view all comments by EYJ)
Blake Crouch's Dark Matter is truly a transcendent novel. It can't be pigeonholed into just a Science Fiction, Mystery or Thriller category, because it has all these elements and more. It's a story about a man's quest to rejoin his family and to find his home and all he took for granted. Some would call Professor Jason Dessen's life a middling one, for a scientist who once had ambitions to unlock the secrets of time and space. But Jason loves his wife Daniela and his son Charlie, and has no regrets, even as his less capable colleague Ryan Holder wins the coveted Pavia Prize. The night of Ryan's triumph is the night Jason's life changes forever. A man wearing a geisha mask abducts him, stripping him and injecting him with a psychotropic drug. He awakes in a radically different reality, scared and confused, and knows he has to find his way back home before time runs out. This is one of the most exciting books I've ever read! Don't miss out!

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781101904244
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
05/02/2017
Publisher:
BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL
Pages:
368
Height:
1.00IN
Width:
5.10IN
Author:
Blake Crouch

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