The Stanford Experiment

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Hypnosis. Imprisonment. Torture. What if you helped terrorize your fiancée during the most notorious college experiment in history? What if your police work forced you to relive your worst personal horror--one that you've concealed for decades? Could you solve the case? Would you try to keep your secret hidden?

These are some of the questions that Detective Jake Burns must answer in the thriller The Stanford Experiment. Since abruptly dropping out of college twenty-five years ago, Jake has pieced together a bland, predictable existence that helps him keep people and events at a stiff-armed distance. Then, he is assigned two cases at Stanford University that quickly overpower his isolation: an attack on the most popular professor on campus and the death of the University president. As he is pulled deeper into the investigation, Jake finds himself in a tortuous confrontation between the need to solve the cases and his own dark past. Will he find redemption for what he did--or be destroyed by it?

The Stanford Experiment uses a fictionalized version of the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) as the backdrop for Jake's troubling investigations. In the book, as with the notorious, real-life SPE, a fake prison becomes all too real when students lose themselves in their roles as prisoners and guards. With the Abu Gharib prison scandal still on the mind of many Americans, this fast-paced book provides a powerful fictional account of one man's attempt at deliverance after his fall into uncontrolled ruthlessness.