Dark Matter

The bestselling author of the Wayward Pines trilogy returns with a mind-bending, always unexpected thriller.

One evening, while strolling through the freezing streets of Chicago on his way home, Jason Dessen is looking forward to spending a peaceful evening by the fireside with his wife, Daniela, and his son, Charlie, when his world collapses.

"Are you happy with your life?"

Before the masked kidnapper renders Jason Dessen unconscious, they are the last words he hears.

Before he wakes up and finds himself surrounded by people dressed in hazmat suits while tied to a gurney.

Jason looks up to see a guy he's never seen grinning and saying, "Welcome back, my friend."

Jason's life is not the same as it was in the world he woke up to. She is not his spouse. He never had a son. Furthermore, Jason is a renowned genius who has accomplished something extraordinary rather than just your typical college physics professor. Something impractical.

Which reality is the dream, this one or the other?

How on earth is Jason going to be able to return to the family he loves, even if the house he recalls is real? The answers lay in a voyage that is both more amazing and scary than he could have ever imagined, one that will have him face his darkest sides while facing a fearsome, apparently invincible enemy.

Intriguingly detailed and yet expansive and personal, mind-bendingly bizarre and very human, Dark Matter is a science-fiction thriller about decisions, unexplored avenues, and the lengths we will go to in order to live the lives we choose.