A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SPECIAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION With a new introduction by
award-winning author N. K. Jemisin. In Authority the New York Times bestselling second
volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy Area X's most disturbing questions are
answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring. After thirty years the only human
engagement with Area X-a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and
mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization-has been a series of expeditions overseen
by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following
the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation the agency is in complete
disarray. John Rodriguez (aka "Control") is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Working
with a distrustful but desperate team a series of frustrating interrogations a cache of
hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage Control begins to penetrate the
secrets of Area X. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and
the agency he's pledged to serve. In Authority the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's
Southern Reach Trilogy Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers
are far from reassuring.
