Shutter IslandShutter Island
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Book, 2003
Current format, Book, 2003, 1st ed, All copies in use.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. 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.
In this best-selling thriller soon to be movie directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, two U.S. Marshals hunting for an escaped mental patient unveil a nightmare world of CIA drug trials, Nazi inspired eugenic work, and repressive mind control. Reprint. Movie tie-In. 100,000 first printing.
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashecliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but unveil a nightmare world of CIA drug trials and repressive mind control.
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- New York : William Morrow, c2003.
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