B format paperback, 485 pages
English language
Published Aug. 7, 2020 by Hodder.
Luke Ellis, a super-smart twelve-year-old with an exceptional gift, is the latest in a long line of kids abducted and taken to a secret government facility, hidden deep in the forest in Maine.
Here, kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - like Luke's new friends Kalisha, Nick and Iris, are subjected to a series of experiments.
There seems to be no hope of escape. Until Luke teams up with an even younger boy whose powers of telepathy are off the scale.
Meanwhile, far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson, looking for the quiet life, has taken a job working for the local sheriff. He doesn't know he's about to take on the biggest case of his career... --back cover
A great read that’s very reminiscent of Stranger Things. It’s only the 2nd King book I’ve read but I love his non-horror works.
This is the first King book I've read since Duma Key, which was an utter disappointment because the last third of that book veered way off course.
The Institute was a thoroughly modern King return to form. I was immersed in the circumstances of young people taken from their homes and put into a place where they were no longer individuals, but commodities.
The juxtaposition of an authority figure who wields stinging words through smiling lips is the real life horror that anyone can identify with at some point in their own past or present.
The last third of this novel grasps you until you can't bear to put it down to try to finish the next morning. Loved it.
