Its 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Bostons Shutter Island Hospital Ashecliffe. Hes insisted on concessions on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders he has not brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal completely sinister. Teddy shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects break so wide open. How to reduce the tornado from communicating with the mainland, more dangerous criminals escape in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his sanity. |