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

“Are you pleased with your daily life?”

Those are the last phrases Jason Dessen hears prior to 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 pal.”

Nowadays he’s woken up to, Jason’s about Dark Matter: A Novel life is not the main one he knows. His wife isn’t his wife. His boy was never created. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius that has achieved something amazing. Something impossible.

Could it be this globe or the other that’s the fantasy? As well as if the house he remembers is real, how do Jason possibly make it back again to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey even more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could’ve imagined-one that may force him to confront the darkest elements of himself even as he fights a terrifying, apparently unbeatable foe.

Dark Matter is certainly a brilliantly plotted story that is at once sweeping and close, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human-a relentlessly unexpected science-fiction thriller on the subject of choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll head to state the lives we dream of.