The Ninth Configuration

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Exorcist , William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration is a thought-provoking, blackly comic journey into the heart of madness—and the outer limits of belief — that served as the basis of an acclaimed film (also known as Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane ). Hidden away in a brooding Gothic manor in the deep woods is Center Eighteen, a secret military "rest camp" currently housing twenty-seven inmates, all officers who have succumbed to a sudden