He also learns pretty quickly that someone is hunting him down. So the question is: which is actually his life? The one in which he finds himself now or the one he remembers? He has no son nor ever has had one, and he is not a university professor but rather an award-winning atomic physicist. Soon he learns that in the world to which he’s awoken, he is not married nor ever has been.

When he awakes, he’s in a lab, strapped to a gurney and a man – someone he’s never seen before - says to him, “Welcome Back.” Jason plays along and at the first opportunity, escapes. The man leads him to a warehouse where he then injects Jason with some sort of drug, causing him to pass out. One night, Jason is walking home from a bar after briefly joining a friend for a celebratory drink when a stranger wearing a mask and wielding a gun kidnaps him, though, for the life of him, Jason cannot even begin to fathom the reason why. So this is more of a techno-thriller that follows a university professor named Jason Dressen, who is married to the love of his life Daniela and together they have a son named Charlie. Now, this was published in 2016, so I guess I’m a bit late to the game here. What was fun was that I went into this almost completely blind, so I had no idea what was coming. So I picked it up and was not disappointed. I recently read and loved “Recursion” by Blake Crouch, so I immediately wanted to read some of his other work, and I heard some great things about Dark Matter.

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch