Shutter Island
Shutter Island
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Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island for the truth. Pray for him.
In 1954, US Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule have arrived at Ashcliffe Hospital, a Federal Mental Institution for the Criminally Insane on a small island in Massachusetts' Outer Harbor. They have come to find an escaped patient, Rachel Solando, who has left behind a series of encoded clues. The more they investigate, the more they believe that Rachel has summoned them there, hoping to shed light on Ashcliffe's history as an experimental institution, during the watershed years when psychiatry hovered uneasily between its history of psycho-surgery and barbaric physical abuse and it's future of pharmaceutical experimentation. As a storm approaches, Teddy and Chuck find that they may have stumbled into a nightmare world of CIA drug trials, eugenics work inspired by the Nazis, and repressive mind control in the middle of the Red Scare. And the more they learn, the more they fear someone is trying to drive them insane.
Dennis Lehane is the author of thirteen novels--including the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day--as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in California with his family.
SKU | CIN0063072939G |
ISBN 13 | 9780063072930 |
ISBN 10 | 0063072939 |
Title | Shutter Island |
Author | Dennis Lehane |
Condition | Good |
Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
Year published | 2021-02-02 |
Number of pages | 400 |
Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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