Trade Paperback |368 pages

In the second volume of theSouthern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened . . .

Jeff VanderMeers acclaimedSouthern Reach Trilogynow in a beautiful new paperback edition.

After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area Xa seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilizationhas been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled inAnnihilation, the agency is in complete disarray.

John Rodriguez (aka Control) is the Southern Reachs newly appointed head. 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. But with each discovery, he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency hes pledged to serve.

InAuthority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeersSouthern Reach Trilogy, Area Xs most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.