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 … 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.
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Blake Crouch has talked about how Pines was inspired by Twin Peaks. To me, it feels like a mix of Twin Peaks, The Fugitive, and The Twilight Zone.
The story begins with a Secret Service Agent investigating a disappearance in a small Idaho town where everything is too good to be true. Saying more would be spoiling. The action is non-stop, the …
Ethan Hawke is a US secret service agent on a mission to find two of his fellow agents who disappeared near Wayward Pines, Idaho. When he arrives, nothing is as he expected and things are all going wrong. He can’t get a hold of his family back home, and there is a huge fence surrounding the town – not to mention the only road out of town loops …
Loved, loved, loved the Wayward Pines series. I wish I could go back and read them all again for the first time!
I loved this book… it was such a great concept and very well executed.
PROS: Wayward Pines is one of the rare books that actually made my spine tingle. Seriously. What I loved is that Blake Crouch was not detailed just to create details. Instead, the details provided always made me wonder what their significance was. Page-turner with a scientific flavor. I can’t help but remember the crickets…
CONS: A little …
If you are fan of Twin Peaks…you will most likely enjoy this trilogy. I luckily stumbled upon the first book in the series on Amazon and was able to borrow it for free through Amazon Prime Reading. After reading the first few pages, I was hooked and immediately purchased the other 2 books. Enjoyed every second of all of them! Now on to watch …
Reading this is basically endurance training. I’ve never wanted to port into a book to give a guy an energy bar, a gatorade, and a clean pair of pants so badly.
Loved the story … what an imagination!
A long drawn-out plug for the green new deal along with liberal talking points and left wing tripe.
i like this whole series
I picked this book up when I was having difficulty concentrating…and couldn’t put it down. (Actually, I read the whole trilogy rather quickly.)
Pines is the beginning of a terrifying journey. It keeps you turning the page, trying to figure it all out. Just read the books…all of them!
I am a huge fan of Blake Crouch and Pines joins the list of thrilling reads I’ve enjoyed by him!
I could not put this book down. I just wanted to keep reading to find out what was going to happen next. An absolute page turner.
Very M Knight Shamalayan or Dean Koontz, but with spies, a sci-fi/horror thriller with a lot of action.
This was very different than I expected based on the description. It was very intriguing to see the full story come together. It will be interesting to see how the the books conclude.
There was quite a bit of language which does make it a bit hard for me to rate this book higher. I will finish the series but probably won’t get higher than 3 stars.
I like Blake Crouch’s books.
Wayward Pines, the idealistic little town….
Just remember not everything or everyone are as they seem. Ethan wakes up on the bank of a river, with no idea who he is, where he is or what has happened to him.
Even as he learns the answers to these questions, he ends up with less knowledge and more confusion.
On to devour the next book, Wayward
Read this 3 book series including “Pines”, “Wayward Pines” and “The Last Town” Great series, great writer.
I picked this book up on a recommendation from Crimereads, and was swept up immediately.
I didn’t know the genre, didn’t know that it was the first of a series, or that it was even on television. The novel begins with a basic thriller lure – Secret Service agent comes to small town in search of missing agents – and plunges deep into dystopia by …
This book kicks off a great trilogy that will leaving your head spinning. Crouch is a master and so far he has yet to write a bad book in my opinion.