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. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, тАЬStartlingly original.тАЭ The Washington Post raves, тАЬBrilliantly conceived and executed.тАЭ A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone, Shutter Island carries the reader into a nightmare world of madness, mind control, and CIA Cold War paranoia and is unlike anything youтАЩve ever read before.
Dennis Lehane is the author of thirteen novelsтАФincluding the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given DayтАФas well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in California with his family.
David Strathairn reads ""Welcome to the Monkey House,"" ""Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog,"" ""D.P.,"" ""The Lie,"" and ""Adam"".