{"title":"Blake Crouch","description":"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. 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His\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs it this world or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined--one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark Matter\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human--a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101554544863,"sku":"9781101904244","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/eHJWa24rZGk1dUdHejZiL0svTXRNQT09.webp?v=1781071714"},{"product_id":"recursion-paperback","title":"Recursion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - From the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDark Matter\u003c\/i\u003e and the Wayward Pines trilogy comes a relentless thriller about time, identity, and memory--his most mind-boggling, irresistible work to date, and the inspiration for Shondaland's upcoming Netflix film.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Gloriously twisting . . . a heady campfire tale of a novel.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003e- NPR - \u003ci\u003eBookRiot\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReality is broken.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that's sweeping the world is no pathogen. It's just the first shock wave, unleashed by a stunning discovery--and what's in jeopardy is not our minds but the very fabric of time itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn New York City, Detective Barry Sutton is closing in on the truth--and in a remote laboratory, neuroscientist Helena Smith is unaware that she alone holds the key to this mystery . . .\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eand the tools for fighting back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether, Barry and Helena will have to confront their enemy--before they, and the world, are trapped in a loop of ever-growing chaos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRecursion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An action-packed, brilliantly unique ride that had me up late and shirking responsibilities until I had devoured the last page . . . a fantastic read.\"\u003cb\u003e--Andy Weir, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Martian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Another profound science-fiction thriller. 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Crouch's] intelligence is an able match for the challenge he's set of overcoming the structure of time itself.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wildly entertaining . . . another winning novel from an author at the top of his game.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eAV Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101645738207,"sku":"9781524759797","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VTdGd2tSMzZPYmdHUE1LZWRPWUU1Zz09.webp?v=1781071888"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/blake-crouch.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}