American writer Blake Crouch is known in the circles of action-packed narrative lovers with a detective bias. His famous trilogy "Pine" was read by millions of people and even received a film adaptation. His career, life and work deserve the attention of all connoisseurs of quality literature.
Biography and study
Blake Crouch was born in 1978 in the small town of Statesville (North Carolina, USA). The town was surrounded by mountains and the guy grew up among nature, which was later traced in his work. There was no information about children's years, because at that time he was not widely known. The fact that in 2000 the future writer graduated from the main state university and became a qualified specialist in the field of knowledge of the native language and writing was precisely registered. For four more years, this man was not known until his first book appeared in the world. Since then, the author did not allow the public to forget about himself and constantly pleased with new works.
Start and career development
In 2004, Blake Crouch made his debut in literary activities with the psychological thriller The Wasteland. The plot tells how a strange letter comes to the writer Andrew Thomas with the text that a corpse is hidden in the territory of his house and there are traces of the author’s blood on it. Together with the note, action instructions were detailed. If they are not followed, then false evidence will go to the police. That is how the plot began.
Readers liked the book, and Blake Crouch continued his writing. A year later, he moves with his wife to Durango (Colorado). Here they begin to climb together. The change of residence positively affected creative abilities, and the highlands prompted the writing of the novel “Abandon”. The book describes the life of the mining town of San Juan, which at the end of the nineteenth century simply disappeared from the face of the earth under mysterious circumstances. Crouch outlined his theory of what is happening in a corporate style.
The main trilogy and film adaptation
The Blake Crouch trilogy entitled “Pines” brought the writer worldwide fame. The writer began this story under the influence of the series "Twin Peaks", where there were similar motives. The first book saw the world in 2012, the next two were published with an interval of 10-12 months. The trilogy is famous for the fact that it combines different topics. Here, the problems of isolated settlements in the states of America that are engaged in agriculture are revealed.
Along with this, the writer fully reveals the vision of temporary shifts, the evolution of man and other mystical things. Separately, it is worth noting the line where the struggle of man with nature is shown. The writer vividly reflected all the facets of this contest and thereby managed to attract readers. The series filmed the FOX channel, and Blake himself acted as a screenwriter and producer. The total number of episodes was ten, and they accurately convey the atmosphere of books.
The plot of the trilogy "Pine"
In addition to combining different topics and revealing certain issues, Blake Crouch’s books in the Pine trilogy are able to interest with an action-line. It all starts with the fact that the agent of American special services Ethan Burke regains consciousness in a town called Lost Pines near Idaho. He survived a severe car accident and is trying to cope with its consequences in a village remote from civilization. Over time, he begins to notice strange things that are happening in this city.
His instincts of past work force to start his own investigation. In the process of finding new evidence, strange and terrible things are increasingly happening in this area. Ethan Burke will have to uncover the secret of the Lost Pines and try to correct the state of affairs. A man will look for allies for himself in his struggle and will be able to get to the bottom of the truth, but what the consequences will be of this depends only on himself.
