Shutter Island - A Novel - Dennis Lehane - Paperback Bog - HarperCollins - 2021 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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This New York Times bestseller is an arresting psychological thriller in which two U.S. Marshalshunting for an escaped mental patient unveil a nightmare world of CIA drugtrials, Nazi inspired eugenic work, and repressive mind control. In the year 1954, U.S.Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island,home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate anunexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhereon this barren island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance ina locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on theisland, hints of radical experimentation and covert government machinations adddarker, more sinister shades to an already bizarre case. Because nothing atAshecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems