Dark Matter

· Macmillan Digital Audio · Narrated by Jon Lindstrom
4.3
27 reviews
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10 hr 8 min
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'Brilliant' – Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series.

Now a major Apple TV+ series starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly.

Jason Dessen has been abducted. His life has been stolen. To get it back, he will go on a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could have possibly imagined. Dark Matter is a relentlessly surprising alternate-universe sci-fi thriller from Blake Crouch.


'Are you happy in your life?'

Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.

Before he awakes to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.

Before the man he's never met smiles down at him and says, 'Welcome back.'

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 physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.

In this other life, Jason has created a box. Transport into infinite alternate universes – every possible outcome of his life, one behind each door. In this other life, Jason chose a door. And he stole the life he wanted.

If Jason Dessen wants his life back, he will have to find it among infinite possibilities. And he will have to battle a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe: himself.

From the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, Dark Matter is sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Ready Player One.

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4.3
27 reviews
193
19 July 2021
The listening is definitely enjoyable and the story grabs you from the start, even though it's a bunch of classic themes tied in with some ingenuity and/or logical weaknesses. I liked it and I strongly recommend it, but it's better to forgive the inconsistencies and go with the flow.
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Edward Powell
26 April 2021
Starts well, then goes into a blurred repeat pattern, then the author gives up and does a lazy ending where he looks like he didn't know what else to do
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Sam Dhiman
30 June 2018
The plot is the USP in this case, if you have any appetite for similar stories this author won't disappoint you in spite of the fact that he's not a Stephen King or Philip K Dick!
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About the author

Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include the New York Times bestseller Dark Matter, and the international bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. Crouch also co-created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He lives in Colorado.

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