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King Stephen - The Institute A Novel - Paperback
King Stephen - The Institute A Novel - Paperback
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Description: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King whose storytelling transcends genre (Newsday) comes another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable (The Boston Globe) about a group of kids confronting evil. In the middle of the night in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute in a room that looks just like his own except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors behind which are other kids with special talents telekinesis and telepathy who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha Nick George Iris and ten - year - old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others Luke learns graduated to Back Half like the roach motel Kalisha says. You check in but you don t check out. In this most sinister of institutions the director Mrs. Sigsby and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don t punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute. As psychically terrifying as Firestarter and with the spectacular kid power of It The Institute is first - rate entertainment that has something important to say. We all need to listen (The Washington Post).
Title: The Institute A Novel
Author(s): King Stephen
Publisher: Pocket Books
Barcode: 9781982110574
Pages: 672 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/29/2021
Category: Thriller / Suspense
Description: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King whose storytelling transcends genre (Newsday) comes another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable (The Boston Globe) about a group of kids confronting evil. In the middle of the night in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute in a room that looks just like his own except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors behind which are other kids with special talents telekinesis and telepathy who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha Nick George Iris and ten - year - old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others Luke learns graduated to Back Half like the roach motel Kalisha says. You check in but you don t check out. In this most sinister of institutions the director Mrs. Sigsby and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don t punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute. As psychically terrifying as Firestarter and with the spectacular kid power of It The Institute is first - rate entertainment that has something important to say. We all need to listen (The Washington Post).
Title: The Institute A Novel
Author(s): King Stephen
Publisher: Pocket Books
Barcode: 9781982110574
Pages: 672 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/29/2021
Category: Thriller / Suspense
