In the style of a JD Barker only with a more dystopian argument, the also American Blake crouch is one of those authors who fascinates with his characters and their actions at full speed, ideal to adapt to scripts of movies or series (as it really happens).
In his already considerable bibliography, Crouch delves into this dark genre literature ranging from thriller to film. science fiction more introspective. In the end, the imaginary is shared between both final presentations by the author. It is about a lost drawer and its dusty filing cabinet where writers bent on torment find their doses of morbid combined with the strange taste of fear and a fondness for the most unsuspected philias and phobias.
And yes, that cocktail really likes it. Because nothing is more magnetic than an invitation to look into the abyss. It was already sung by Lou Reed in his "Take a Walk on the Wild Side." As children someone always protects us from the dark so that when we grow up they claim us as the most powerful temptation. Mysteries of the human condition.
Blake Crouch's Top 3 Recommended Novels
Wayward Pines. The Paradise
The landing of Crouch in Spain many years and several novels after he began in this of accompanying readers to the darkness of the soul. So let's start at the beginning with a thriller that already points to that fantastic setting that puzzles and fascinates.
Federal Agent Ethan Burke heads to Wayward Pines in search of two of his missing colleagues, when the car in which he is traveling with a partner goes off the road. A few hours later Ethan wakes up in the middle of a charming town, a town where birds sing and children run through the streets.
He does not know where he is, or how to get out of there ... Without documentation or money, Burke must reveal the secrets of this idyllic community in which nothing is what it seems. Welcome to Wayward Pines, a place you will never want to leave ...
Recursion
We came up with the brilliant idea. To the turn already from the beginning of a plot. Because Crouch breaks everything down by keeping bits and pieces of that strange realism that serves the cause of the most absolute proximity, of the empathy of the reader sitting on his sofa in his slippers or in his floral swimsuit in the pool hammock.
The reality has been broken. At first it looks like a virus. An epidemic that spreads uncontrollably, driving its victims crazy with memories of a life that is not their own. But it is not a pathogen and the consequences affect not only the mind, but the very fabric of time.
In New York, Detective Barry Sutton is investigating this strange syndrome in a case that soon becomes intertwined with the work of a brilliant neuroscientist convinced that it is memory that determines reality. But how can two people investigate the origin of false memories when all around them reality is being defragmented?
Dark matter
A title that evokes Stephen King and that matter created, in an extensive and exalted work, as glue for the entire imagined universe of evil devouring good, of the fantastic, of the desire not to succumb to the shadows ... In this novel, dark matter also unfolds as a gloomy storm in the subconscious and its parallel worlds.
Jason Dessen lives in Chicago, where he has given up his great scientific aspirations to teach and focus on his family. One night, after attending a celebration honoring a former classmate who won a major astrophysics prize, Jason heads home and never arrives.
A man hidden behind a geisha mask leads him at gunpoint to an abandoned power station, where he injects something. When he regains consciousness, strangers in special suits greet him with the words "welcome back." But this reality is not what he knows: his wife is not the same, his son has not been born and he is not even a teacher. Is this world a dream? Or was it his previous life?
