Shutter Island: Reflection

I have just finished Shutter Island, and I'm happy to say It's already in the pantheon of my favorite books. It's masterful craft of horror and thriller was wonderful, but it's the human emotion that makes the book great. It's author Dennis Lehane, is proven in the True Crime genre, and it makes sense he would have success writing a Psychological Mystery. Like his other books it takes place in Boston, this time on a little island brimming with convicts. Teddy Daniels travels there to track down an escaped murderess, who killed all her kids. His real motivation is to kill the man, Andrew Laeddis, that murdered his wife. All the while escaping the eyes of the psycholigists and the rascist warden who rules the island. All the while the book asks you to take a leap of faith and trust Teddy, a clearly traumatized veteran who liberated the death camps in Dachau, and who now may be the key to exposing the island where it appears that experimental surgeries, mass druggings, and manipulation occur. Of course nothing is what it seems, but to tell you would give away the hidden treasures that come from reading this book.