NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+ • A mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly)
speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from
the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade Recursion and the Wayward Pines
trilogy Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the
kidnapper knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney
surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and
says Welcome back my friend.” In this world he’s woken up to Jason’s life is not the one he
knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college
professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.
Is it this life or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real how
will Jason make it back to the family he loves? From the bestselling author Blake Crouch Dark
Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choices paths not taken and how far we’ll go to claim
the lives we dream of.
