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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Summer! 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels s 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! a murderess named Rachel Solando! as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. 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 ... Or is there another! more personal reason why he has come there? As the investigation deepens! the questions only mount. The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth! the more elusive it becomes! and the more they begin to believe that they my never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane ... Zusammenfassung 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. ...
