Pines: Wayward Pines: 1 (The Wayward Pines Trilogy)

by Blake Crouch

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you. —Joseph Heller

And still, he was here. And by virtue of that fact, or rather because of it, this place wasn’t perfect. His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone—pitch black.

“The people in town, for the most part, can’t handle the truth of what’s out there. But you…you can’t handle the lie.