Burke’s introduction to Wayward Pines, is a traumatic entrance to say the least, it involves a Mack truck, a dead partner and ‘brain damage’ that plays a recurring role throughout the first half of the book as headaches, confusion, and temporary amnesia.ĭuring the course of his investigation Burke encounters several interesting ‘townies’ including the violence loving good ol’ boy sheriff, a “nurse” who does little in the way of nursing and is one big bundle of clichés, his former partner/lover who has inexplicably aged nearly a decade, and a cavalcade of other folks that are disturbingly familiar yet completely alien to him. The pair was on the trail of an enigmatic billionaire whose ‘interesting’ financial transactions had piqued the interest of the feds. On the surface, “Pines” is the story of Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke who is sent to Wayward Pines, a remote and stereotypical small town paradise in the middle of the Idahoan mountains, to investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents. Be forewarned: it’s impossible to adequately review this book without spoilers but I’ll try to keep them to a bare minimum. The mysterious and often ridiculous feeling of David Lynch’s television series took root and grew like a weed, within a teenage boy’s receptive imagination. It was a revival of earlier attempts to continue the “Twin Peaks” series (He actually wrote a third season for the show). In his own words, Crouch tells us, this is his attempt to tell a deeply disturbing but fulfilling tale of a forgotten town full of quirky characters and incredible situations.
Inspired by his fascination with “Twin Peaks” and “The X-Files”, “Pines” is Crouch’s first novel of the “Wayward” trilogy.
The smart reader would be wise to heed the unspoken warning – suspect the unexpected and the usual suspects – before they even turn the first page.
From the very beginning, the acknowledgement page in fact, Blake Crouch alludes to the less than traditional plot and twists in “ Pines”.
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