Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include Upgrade, Recursion, Dark Matter, and the Wayward Pines trilogy. His Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, and he also co-created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He currently acts as head writer and showrunner for the hit Apple TV+ adaptation of Dark Matter, starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly. He lives in Colorado.

Praise for Blake Crouch

"Gloriously twisting."--The New York Times Book Review, on Recursion

"Wildly entertaining."--AV Club, on Recursion

"Action packed and brilliantly unique."--Andy Weir, on Recursion

"Equal parts thriller and sci-fi . . . examines how far our humanity can stretch."--Time, on Upgrade

"Amazingly gripping and totally immersive . . . You don't so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin."--Diana Gabaldon, on Upgrade

"You'll gulp it down in one afternoon, or more likely one night."--The New York Times Book Review, on Dark Matter

"The most helter-skelter, race-to-the-finish-line thriller you'll read all year, with a clever, mind-bending final twist."--The Guardian, on Dark Matter

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Pub date: 2025-09-23

Length: 208 pages