Dark Matter is a science-fiction action story. The narrator is kidnapped by a masked man, taken to an abandoned power station, and injected with a mysterious drug. He wakes up in a different reality where people treat him as a returning hero. He escapes into an alternate version of Chicago, and tries to figure out what's happening. (It takes him a little longer than it takes the reader.) Soon he is traveling through many alternate realities and outwitting numerous enemies in a quest to return to his "real" life.
The heart of the book is in its chase and fight scenes, which are frequent, well executed, and keep you turning the pages. The scientific elements are largely there to motivate the action sequences, although they also serve to introduce questions about personal identity. Crouch surely wrote Dark Matter with a movie in mind.
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