This book is a throwback in a good way to early King novels such as Firestarter and It with its themes of children with powers fighting evil government agencies.
Luke Ellis, an extremely smart kid, is sleeping when agents sneak into his Minneapolis house, murder his parents, and kidnap him for transport to The Institute. He wakes up in a room that looks just like the bedroom he left but there is no window and the door opens onto an institutional hallway and a yard with other kids. Luke soon discovers that the sinister forces behind The Institute are dead set on extracting psychic powers from the minds of gifted kids no matter the cost. King's worlds are never black and white and it is fascinating to see what choices his characters will make in the grey.
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