In the final installment of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound --- or terrifying.

From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X from ANNIHILATION, the first book in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, begin to reveal themselves --- and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he’s promised to serve.

In the first book of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades and nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization.