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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Harper
Published: Sep 2009
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 400
Summer, 1954.
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient.
But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems.And neither is Teddy Daniels.
Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing ...
The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island.
Because someone is trying to drive them insane ...
that ending... wow
One of my favorite books and movies!
This book really scared me - the description of insanity is so very real - never read anything quite like it - seems the author somehow got into the head of a crazy person very deeply. Wonderful read!