It does everything you’d expect of a masterpiece – and it is one’ Sunday Express’Hums and crackles with delicious unease’ Independent’Captivating’ The Sunday Times’An absorbing thriller’ Mail on Sundayno One Has Ever Escaped From The Institute.Luke Ellis, a super-smart twelve-year-old with an exceptional gift, is the latest in a long line of kids abducted and taken to a secret government facility, hidden deep in the forest in Maine.Here, kids with special talents – telekinesis and telepathy – like Luke’s new friends Kalisha, Nick and Iris, are subjected to a series of experiments.There seems to be no hope of escape. Until Luke teams up with an even younger boy whose powers of telepathy are off the scale.Meanwhile, far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson, looking for the quiet life, has taken a job working for the local sheriff.