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. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Even if you finish before dawn, Shutter Island will trouble your sleep.Summer, 1954. 'A lollapalooza of a corkscrew thriller.sure to be the most talked-about thriller of the year.' - Kirkus Reviews, starred review 'There is no mystery.about how good this book is like Mystic River, it's a tour de force.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) unfolds with increasing urgency until it delivers a visceral shock in its final moments.” - New York Times “Startlingly original.instantly cinematic. with the creepiness of a good Stephen King yarn. 'The ride this novel provides is as good as entertainment gets.' - Miami Herald is an express train with no local stops.engrossing.' - Boston Globe 'Fasten your seat belts for a bumpy, breakneck ride.utterly absorbing.

No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades-with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, 'Startlingly original.' The Washington Post raves, 'Brilliantly conceived and executed.' A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone, Shutter Island carries the reader into a nightmare world of madness, mind control, and CIA Cold War paranoia and is unlike anything you've ever read before. The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems.

Shutter island by dennis lehane