The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island Startlingly original. The Washington Post raves Brilliantly conceived and executed. A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone Shutter Island carries the reader into a nightmare world of madness mind control and CIA Cold War paranoia and is unlike anything you ve ever read before.