How has a barefoot woman escaped an island from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? Why is there no record of a patient committed just one year before? What really goes on in Ward C? Why is an empty lighthouse surrounded by an electrified fence and armed guards? The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumours of Ashecliffe’s radical approach to psychiatry? Rumours that hint of drug experimentation, surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing …As the investigation deepens, the questions mount. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems, and neither is Teddy Daniels. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped murderess named Rachel Solando as a hurricane bears down upon them. Ships from: Sold by: List Price:16.99Details The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, Startlingly original. Shutter Island: A Novel has been added to your Cart Buy new: 12.2912.29 FREE delivery: Thursday, April 27 on orders over 25.00 shipped by Amazon. Summer, 1954 – US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. 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.
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