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de KING, STEPHEN
de KING, STEPHEN
'It does everything you'd expect of a masterpiece - and it is one'Sunday Express 'Hums and crackles with delicious unease' Independent'A captivating, hybrid novel that shape-shifts through several genres' The Sunday Times Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark statefacility where kids, abducted from across the United States, areincarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts - telepathy,telekinesis - for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is the latestrecruit. He's just a regular 12-year-old, except he's not just smart,he's super-smart. And he has another gift which the Institute wants to use... Far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop TimJamieson has taken a job working for the local sheriff. He's basically just walking the beat. But he's about to take on the biggest case ofhis career. Back in the Institute's downtrodden playground andcorridors where posters advertise 'just another day in paradise',Luke, his friend Kalisha and the other kids are in no doubt that theyare prisoners, not guests. And there is no hope of escape. But greatevents can turn on small hinges and Luke is about to team up with anew, even younger recruit, Avery Dixon, whose ability to read minds is off the scale. While the Institute may want to harness their powersfor covert ends, the combined intelligence of Luke and Avery is beyond anything that even those who run the experiments - even the infamousMrs Sigsby - suspect. Thrilling, suspenseful, heartbreaking, THEINSTITUTE is a stunning novel of childhood betrayed and hope regained.
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