The Last Town (The Wayward Pines Trilogy 3)
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WAYWARD, Book TWO of the Wayward Pines Series, is ALSO available in print, audio, and e-book.
Welcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amid picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden . . . except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24-7, and relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture. None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry. Some believe they are dead. Others think they’re trapped in an unfathomable experiment. Everyone secretly dreams of leaving, but those who dare to try are in for a terrifying surprise. Ethan Burke has seen the world beyond. He’s sheriff, and one of the few who knows the truth: Wayward Pines isn’t just a town. And what lies on the other side of the fence is a nightmare world beyond anyone’s imagining.
BLAKE CROUCH’S FULL CATALOG
THE WAYWARD PINES SERIES
Pines
Wayward
Last Town
THE ANDREW Z. THOMAS/LUTHER KITE SERIES
Desert Places
Locked Doors
Break You
Stirred (with J.A. Konrath)
THE STAND-ALONE NOVELS
Run
Abandon
Snowbound
Famous
Eerie (with Jordan Crouch)
Draculas (with J.A. Konrath, Jeff Strand, and F. Paul Wilson)
THE SERIAL SERIES (WITH J.A. KONRATH AND JACK KILBORN)
“Serial” (short story)
“Bad Girl” (short story)
Serial Uncut (novella)
Killers (novella)
Birds of Prey (novel)
Killers Uncut (novel)
Serial Killers Uncut (double novel)
THE LETTY DOBESH SERIES
The Pain of Others (Letty Dobesh #1) (novella)
Sunset Key (Letty Dobesh #2) (novella)
Grab (Letty Dobesh #3) (novella)
THE SHORT STORIES AND NOVELLAS
Hunting Season (with Selena Kitt)
“*69” (short story)
“Remaking” (short story)
“On the Good, Red Road” (short story)
“Shining Rock” (short story)
“The Meteorologist” (short story)
“Unconditional” (short story)
Perfect Little Town (novella)
Four Live Rounds (collected stories)
Six in the Cylinder (collected stories)
Fully Loaded (complete collected stories)
THE BOX SETS
Thicker Than Blood (The Complete Andrew Z. Thomas/Luther Kite Series)
The Fear Trilogy (Run, Snowbound, Abandon)
Confidence Girl (The Letty Dobesh Chronicles)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Deepest gratitude to David Hale Smith, Richard Pine, Alexis Hurley, everyone at Inkwell Management, and to my West Coast fighters, Angela Cheng Caplan and Joel VanderKloot. You’re an extraordinary team, and I’m blessed to have you behind my books.
The folks at Thomas & Mercer and Amazon Publishing—Alan Turkus, Daphne Durham, Jeff Belle, Kristi Coulter, Danielle Marshall, Gracie Doyle, Andy Bartlett, Sarah Tomashek, Reema Al-Zaben, Philip Patrick, Tiffany Pokorny, Nick Loeffler, and Jodi Warshaw—are as fearless a group as I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. I’m thrilled to be on this ride with you.
Thanks to Jacque Ben-Zekry, who edited the hell out of this book and stopped it from sucking in a thousand different ways.
And to Michelle Hope Anderson for a terrific copyedit.
Ann Voss Peterson, Joe Konrath, Marcus Sakey, and Jordan Crouch offered superb feedback and helped me to take this book to another level.
And lastly—most importantly—thank you to my beautiful, wonderful family.
xoxoxoxo
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Blake Crouch is the author of over a dozen bestselling suspense, mystery, and horror novels. His short fiction has appeared in numerous short story anthologies, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Cemetery Dance, and many other publications. Much of his work, including the Wayward Pines series, has been optioned for TV and film. Blake lives in Colorado. To learn more, follow him on Twitter or Facebook, or visit his website, www.blakecrouch.com.