This New York Times
bestseller is an arresting psychological thriller in which two U.S. Marshals
hunting for an escaped mental patient unveil a nightmare world of CIA drug
trials, Nazi inspired eugenic work, and repressive mind control.

In the year 1954, U.S.
Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island,
home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an
unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere
on this barren island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance in
a locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the
island, hints of radical experimentation and covert government machinations add
darker, more sinister shades to an already bizarre case. Because nothing at
Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems…