Agent: Chuck Verrill, Darhansoff & Verrill. Not a word is wasted in this meticulously crafted novel, which once again proves why King is the king of horror. The mystery of the Institute’s purpose is drawn out naturally until it becomes far scarier than the physical abuse visited upon the children. Tapping into the minds of the young characters, King creates a sense of menace and intimacy that will have readers spellbound.
The extended opening of the novel, which tells the rambling story of Tim Jamieson, a former Florida cop trying to figure out his next steps after losing his job under a cloud of controversy, has the unhurried pace and character focus of King’s small town-centric novels. However, no child has ever escaped the Institute. The Institute initially seems like a slam-dunk for multiverse tie-insits bones are the stuff of classic Stephen King. Others have graduated to the Back Half, where “kids check in, but they don’t check out.” The Front Half are promised that they’ll be returned to their parents after testing and a visit to Back Half, but Luke becomes suspicious and desperate to get out and get help for the others. Luke finds comfort in the company of the children in the Front Half: Kalisha, Nick, George, and Avery. When Luke wakes up, he finds himself in a room identical to his own bedroom, except that he is now a resident of the Institute-a facility that tests telekinetic and telepathic abilities of children. In a quiet Minnesota neighborhood, intruders kidnap 12-year-old prodigy Luke Ellis and murder his parents. King wows with the most gut-wrenching tale of kids triumphing over evil since It. Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated.
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