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內容簡介

內容簡介 ★《冰與火之歌》奇幻大師喬治．馬汀：剛讀完史蒂芬．金的最新力作《機構》，一開始看他的書，我就知道完蛋了！因為他會一路掐著我的喉嚨，直到最後一頁才放手！★【城堡岩小鎮粉絲頁創立人】劉韋廷 專文導讀！★美國Amazon書店、Goodreads書評網逾4顆星極致好評！邪惡、神秘、不可告人──它是披著人皮的怪物，以吞噬純真為樂……眼前一黑，意識流失，當路克再次醒來，發現一切都變得極不對勁！他不在他的房間，這裡沒有窗戶、沒有父母，房門外有更多門，每扇門後都住著一名年紀跟他相仿的孩子。一個名叫卡莉莎的女孩告訴路克，這裡叫做「機構」，專門收容像他們這樣具有「特殊能力」的孩子。只要乖乖聽負責人西斯比夫人的話，就可以得到販賣機的代幣作為獎賞。若是拒不配合，不但會遭受嚴厲處罰，甚至可能被送到機構的「後半部」。沒有人清楚「後半部」裡有什麼，但大家都知道，被送到那裡的人，一個也沒有回來過……路克跟同伴們都因為不同的原因來到機構，但比其他人更具優勢的是，他是年僅十二歲就獲得全美頂尖大學破格錄取的天才少年。這意味著，即便不使用「能力」，他也能藉由縝密的精算，突破「機構」的高牆。隨著日復一日的實驗，同伴們接連「被消失」，路克明白自己不能再坐以待斃，想活下去，就只能逃！而一個前所未有的「越獄」計畫，也漸漸在他腦中成形……本中文書介出自《機構》皇冠文化出版有限公司出版From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King whose “storytelling transcends genre” (Newsday) comes “another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable” (The Boston Globe) about a group of kids confronting evil.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. 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. 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.As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is “first-rate entertainment that has something important to say. We all need to listen” (The Washington Post)."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Stephen KingStephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11 22 63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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