DARK MATTER

Spectacular new thriller by the author of the Wayward Pines trilogy, a bestselling series sold to Fox who have adapted it to a 10-part TV series starring Matt Dillon and Carla Cugino to be aired in Spring 2015.

Jason Dessen is a forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago. One night, after a celebration with his old roommate who was just awarded a prestigious prize in astrophysics, Jason heads home. But he never makes it. A man wearing a Geisha mask suddenly forces Jason at gunpoint into the driver seat of a black SUV. Jason is made to drive to South Chicago, where his abductor marches him into an abandoned power plant on the shore of Lake Michigan. Jason thinks he’s going to be tortured and killed, but instead he’s given a powerful drug. When Jason next comes to consciousness, he’s surrounded by people in Hazmat suits who carry him on a stretcher through a strange hangar into a quarantine unit. There, a young doctor looks down at him, smiling, and says, “Welcome back.” Jason is on the brink of a stunning revelation: the world he thought was his is completely wrong. Dark Matter’s landscape is the nature of reality and identity. Part lightning fast thriller, part inquiry into the mysteries of existence, it plays in the world of particle and string theory, where science and philosophy smash together. It’s contemporary, set mainly in Chicago, and is built upon the foundation of an undying love story.