Pines
Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, on assignment to find two missing federal agents, and wakes up in a hospital with no wallet, no phone, and a head wound he cannot place. The town looks like a postcard. The townspeople smile too much. The phones connect to nothing. Every road out of Wayward Pines loops back to the same diner. Crouch builds the puzzle slowly, then drops the reveal that turns the book into something other than a mystery. Pines is the first volume of the Wayward Pines trilogy, adapted into a Fox television series by M. Night Shyamalan in 2015.
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A Secret Service agent wakes up in an Idaho town he cannot leave, where the phones do not work and every road loops back, in the first Wayward Pines novel.
Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines trilogy has three books: Pines, Wayward, and The Last Town. The trilogy is complete.
Yes. Fox produced two seasons of Wayward Pines in 2015 and 2016, with Blake Crouch involved as showrunner. Season one closely adapts the trilogy; season two extends the story beyond the books.
Pines was written by Blake Crouch, published in 2012 by Random House Publishing Group.
Pines is 314 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Pines takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Pines is a standalone novel by Blake Crouch, not part of a series.
Pines is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.