Key service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a apparent mission: locate and recover two federal government agents who went missing in the bucolic city one month earlier. But within a few minutes of his appearance, Ethan is involved in a violent incident. He comes to in a hospital, with no Identification, no cellular phone, and no briefcase. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels…off. As the times pass, Ethan’s investigation into the disappearance of his colleagues turns up even more about Pines queries than answers. Why can’t he get any calls to his wife and kid in the exterior world? Why doesn’t anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what’s the purpose of the electrified fences encircling the city? Are they meant to keep the citizens in? Or something else out? Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan additional from the globe he thought he understood, from the man he believed he was, until he must face a horrifying fact – he may never escape Wayward Pines alive. Intense and gripping, Pines can be another masterful thriller from the mind of bestselling novelist Blake Crouch.