Main The Institute
Book cover The Institute

The Institute

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 Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win.
Year:
2019
Language:
english
Pages:
708
ISBN 10:
1529355400
ISBN 13:
978-1529355406
File:
EPUB, 4.15 MB
Download (epub, 4.15 MB)

You may be interested in Powered by Rec2Me

 

Most frequently terms

 
luke1340
tim530
avery341
kalisha319
sigsby311
stackhouse276
nicky224
wendy140
institute138
maureen126
helen123
iris111
hendricks92
annie90
zeke89
dots89
evans87
luke thought87
ellis83
sheriff83
gladys80
hum68
shit63
dupray62
caretakers61
playground61
tony59
nick58
sheriff john57
fence57
lounge51
dixon50
movie50
sha50
guys50
yeah49
tokens46
elevator45
tank44
harry44
shots44
tunnel43
wilholm43
denny42
ward41
movies41
hadad40
woods39
maine39
frieda38
drummer37
zap35
bdnf34
boxcar34
joe33
tag33
residents32
luke ellis32
eileen31
 
Tammy
The silent patient is breathtaking, the plot twist is amazing. Out of this world
17 December 2019 (18:15) 
Tom
King publishes a new book each every week! How he lives, really?
23 August 2020 (06:27) 
You can write a book review and share your experiences. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. Whether you've loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them.