Barry Sutton, flic désabusé de la police new-yorkaise, enquête sur une vague de suicides engendrée par le Syndrome des Faux Souvenirs, une maladie neurologique inexpliquée dont les victimes se remémorent une vie qu'ils n'ont jamais vécue. Parallèlement, Helena Smith, une neurologue travaillant sur la mémoire, est recrutée par le richissime Marcus Slade pour développer un dispositif permettant d'enregistrer les souvenirs, officiellement pour lutter contre la maladie d'Alzheimer. Mais Slade comprend bientôt que cette invention peut faire bien plus que cela, et ses ambitions font peser sur la réalité elle-même un danger inouï. Seuls Helena et Barry, en joignant leurs forces, ont une chance de l'arrêter...
Blake Crouch is brilliant. His innovative novels never fail to grip!>
The first book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade One way in. No way out.
Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate 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.
As the days pass, Ethan''s investigation 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 farther from the world he knew, from the man he was, until he must face a horrifying fact-he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive.
The nail-bitingly suspenseful opening installment in Blake Crouch''s blockbuster Wayward Pines trilogy, Pines is at once a brilliant mystery tale and the first step into a genre-bending saga of suspense, science fiction, and horror.