The Institute

This is a fast paced page turner. I started reading this novel, after I completed The Shadow of the Wind. Therefore, it was definitely a change of taste. The story, begins with a policeman, who has recently resigned from his job and through a turn of fate arrives at a sleepy little town in USA, where he is trying to come with grips with his new life. At the same time, King takes us to the Institute, started by a clandestine organization to harness and augment telekinetic and telepathic powers of gifted children, using questionable techniques. These children at the institute have been kidnapped and suffer intolerable torture. How a lone kid from the institute and the policeman settling in his new life, meet and bring down the Institute is the rest of the story..... Well written and keeps you awake through the night till you have reached the last page.

Meh