

As the book opens, Logan is exposed to something in a lab he's raiding, wakes up in a hospital, and suspects that he's been exposed to some sort of a gene-editing package that is about to change his body and his mind spectacularly. We come into this world where her son Logan is trying to make amends, and he works for the Gene Protection Agency, which was created as a reaction to what his mom did, to stamp out illegal gene editing. The Wayward Pines Trilogy (20122014) is a mystery/thriller/science fiction novel series by American author Blake Crouch. The Gene Protection Act came in in the wake of the Great Starvation and essentially ended all gene-editing research, because people said, we can't ever have this happen again. My Review: Pines by Blake Crouch is the first book in the Wayward Pines trilogy, and it even spawned a television series of the same name. Instead of fixing this one thing, she ends up plunging us into what came to be known as the Great Starvation. In the opening pages of Pines, the first book in Blake Crouch’s incredible Wayward Pines trilogy, secret service agent Ethan Burke has arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks earlier. Read it now before all you can imagine is Matt Dillon in the read role. "Twenty-some years prior to the events of the book, his mom, Miriam, who was a world-renowned geneticist, was in China with this wild gene-modifying tool she created, trying to edit this rice blight out of a crop. The Bottom Line: A jaw-dropping paranormal thriller series that is clearly deserving of the TV deal it landed. Ethan has a wife named Theresa, and a son named Ben. An Iraq War veteran, Ethan is now a Secret Service agent who has come to Wayward Pines, Idaho, to investigate the disappearance of two other agents. "The protagonist is a guy named Logan Ramsey," says Crouch, whose previous books include 2016's Dark Matter, and 2019's Recursion. Pines by Blake Crouch: 9780593598320 : Books. Ethan Burke is the thirty-seven year old main character and principal protagonist of the novel Pines by Blake Crouch.
