With the reticle set at 25x zoom, the creature’s ghostly silhouette popped against the gray of the shattered rock. Conditions were ideal-clear visibility, mild temperature, no wind. The sniper reached up to the scope, adjusted the parallax, and settled back in behind the focus. Its progression down through the boulder field had been slow and careful, stopping occasionally to sniff the remains of others like it. It had come over the cirque at daybreak, pausing as the first radials of sunlight struck its translucent skin. He lives in Colorado.Mustin had been watching the creature through the Schmidt & Bender telescopic sight for the better part of an hour.
Crouch also co-created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. His novels include Upgrade, Recursion, Dark Matter, and the Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. About the Author Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. The nail-bitingly suspenseful opening installment in Blake Crouchs 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. As the days pass, Ethans investigation turns up more questions than answers: Why cant he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesnt 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. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase.
But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. 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. Book Synopsis 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.
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