Freeman Mills had been in and out of group homes for the past six years, since his father had killed his mother and been sent to prison. Wendover Home, built by the WPA in the thirties just after the Depression, is his new home. Freeman is diagnosed as manic depressive. He triptraps, or mindreads. His father has taught him this skill during his many experiments on his son. Vicki at Wendover has the same ability and Dr. Kracowksi has the same mad experimental drive. He administers synaptic synergy therapy to his charges. He is playing "the God game, healing little souls...redeeming the sins of society. Fixing God's mistakes." Frances Bondurant, Wendover's director, is concerned about the apparitions, ghosts, and urban legends - Look out Larry, an old woman who had obviously suffered a lobotomy. Just after the building that currently housed Wendover was completed it housed a state psychiatric hospital. I it possible that evil was perpetrated here and still lives within the walls? Is the government sponsored trust after the ESP or mind control or the ghosts themselves? Can Freeman and Vicky connect amidst the insanity and escape? This is a riveting psychological thriller set in the horror genre with an unlikely hero who looks to Clint Eastwood and other movie greats for inspiration, with excellent sidebars on the existence of God, faith, love, and life after death.
"Do the right thing the first time. Avoid suffering and regrets."
"Hell was inside your own head, where the doors were closed, where hope never knocked, where darkness and self pity and pain were the only companions forever."
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