The last town

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

The last town

Author:

Crouch, Blake author

ISBN:

9781683248064

Edition:

Center Point Large Print edition.

Publication:

Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2018.

Physical Description:

397 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Series title(s):

Wayward Pines series ;

Number in series:

BK. 3.

General Note:

Regular print version previously published by: Amazon Publishing.

Summary:

"Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago, where people's life choices are dictated. Children are taught that David Pilcher, the town's creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave. But Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject(s):

Secret service -- United States -- Fiction.

Despotism -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Suspense fiction.

Holds:

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Summary

Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town's creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed.

Author Notes

Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the novel, Dark Matter, for which he is writing the screenplay for Sony Pictures. His bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX in 2015. With Chad Hodge, Crouch also created Good Behavior, the TNT television show starring Michelle Dockery based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He has written more than a dozen novels that have been translated into over thirty languages and his short fiction has appeared in several publications including Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The conclusion of Crouch's trilogy of dystopian thrillers (after 2013's Wayward) requires readers to suspend reason as well as disbelief while following the inhabitants of Wayward Pines, Idaho, who, after spending 1,800 years in a cryogenic deep freeze, represent the last of humanity in the year 3813. The isolated community, conceived and created by David Pilcher, resembles someone's 1950s smalltown ideal. The ideal ended when, in the previous volume, Sheriff Ethan Burke revealed to the townspeople that Pilcher, Wayward Pines's self-appointed deity, is the man behind the curtain. Pilcher retaliates by removing the town's electronic protection and allowing mutated humans known as "abbies," or aberrations, to attack. While bloody and unevenly matched fights rage between the beleaguered townies and the abbies, Burke attempts to breach Pilcher's stronghold and end the slaughter. The thin characterizations and repetitive action scenes grate, but may translate more naturally to the small screen in the series' planned TV adaptation. Agent: David Hale Smith, Inkwell Management. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.