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The Institute (Preloaded Digital Audio Player) (Unabridged)
The Institute - Preloaded Digital Audio Player - Unabridged Author:Stephen King, Santino Fontana (Narrator) In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. ... more » And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents, telekinesis and telepathy, who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. In the Institute's downtrodden playground and corridors where posters advertise 'just another day in paradise', Luke, his friend Kalisha and the other kids are in no doubt that they are prisoners, not guests. And there is no hope of escape. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half. "...like the roach motel", Kalisha says, "you check in, but you don't check out."
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don?t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute. It's good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don't always win.
Far away in a small town in South Carolina, ex-police officer Tim Jamieson, hitchhiking his way from Florida to New York, finds himself in the middle of nowhere in South Carolina. He takes on a job he’s extremely overqualified for, working for the local sheriff in this small town police department, as a night knocker, which is basically foot patrol, checking on businesses and any criminal activity after hours. He's basically just walking the beat. But he's about to take on the biggest case of his career. Childhood betrayed and hope regained.
Preloaded Digital Audio Player, runtime 19 hrs, unabridged. Santino Fontana, narrator.« less