![]() The protagonist is a federal agent recovering from an accident in a secluded small town, unable to contact his superiors or his family back home and increasingly convinced that literally everyone around him is in on the sinister conspiracy to keep him stranded there. ![]() This first book in the trilogy builds to the kind of big absurd twist that the director is famous for, and while readers may not predict all of the details in advance, there’s not a lot of other plot concerns to distract us until the inevitable dramatic reveal. Night Shyamalan was one of its executive producers. It’s long on vibes but short on story, and although I haven’t seen the TV adaptation, I am not at all surprised to learn that M. ![]() ![]() I picked up this 2012 novel on the strength of author Blake Crouch’s later sci-fi thrillers like Dark Matter and Recursion, but this earlier effort isn’t really in the same league. ![]()
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