If Annihilation is an expedition novel painted with a thick coat of weird, then Authority is a spy novel given the same dark lacquer. Instead, it's packed full of new pleasures, not only new characters and settings but whole new kinds of writing.
A stunning book, followed by a second stunning book that makes you rethink the first., Authority isn't a book that just picks up where the last one left off. The great thing about Authority is the way it takes the premises that we think we know about that world and turns them inside out, destabilizing everything in a way that makes it even more strange and elusive, and makes us the ones who feel paranoid. The great thing about Annihilation is the strange, elusive, and paranoid world that it creates. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he's pledged to serve. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. John Rodrigues (aka Control) is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray. After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X-a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization-has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. In Authority, the New York Times bestselling second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered.
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