From Blake Crouch, the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, Dark Matter is a fresh York Times bestselling tale that’s at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human being – a relentlessly surprising thriller about options, pathways not taken, and what lengths we’ll head to state the lives we imagine.

‘Are you content in your daily life?’

Those will be the last words Jason Dessen hears prior to the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.

Before he wakes to find himself strapped to about Dark Matter: A Mind-Blowing Twisted Thriller a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.

Before the guy he’s never met smiles down at him and says, ‘Welcome back, my friend.’

Nowadays he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he understands. His wife is not his wife. His son was never delivered. And Jason is not an ordinary university physics professor, but a celebrated genius that has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.

Could it be this globe or the other that is the dream? As well as if the house he remembers is usually real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he adores? The answers lie in a journey even more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could’ve thought – one that will pressure him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he fights a terrifying, apparently unbeatable foe.