Dark Matter: A Novel

Name: Dark Matter: A Novel
Author: Blake Crouch
ISBN: 9781101904220

by Blake Crouch

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! • NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+ A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy “Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man he’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.…

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"There’s a moment in Dark Matter that made my blood run cold. That’s a cliched thing to say about a thriller, granted. But that my horror stemmed from theoretical physics? Less so. The story hinges on the simple facts of Jason Dessen’s life: He’s married. He has a son. He’s a middling college physics professor. And then one day, he’s abducted, knocked unconscious and thrust into a life where he’s still Jason Dessen … but everything else is different. I ripped through this book, unable to put it down. It’s a breathless journey through the laws of the universe and the human heart. It didn’t take much time to read it, but it stayed with me long after I put it down."

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