The prequel to the Stranger Things event series, exclusively in novel form!
A secret laboratory... A scientist with sinister plans... An innocent woman trapped. You thought you knew everything about the adventures of Terry Ives, Eleven's mother? Prepare to discover the unthinkable by devouring the prequel to the Stranger Things event series!
1969. A student on the small campus of a university in Indiana, Terry is far from the upheavals that shake the country, deeply divided by the Vietnam War. But when she learns that young guinea pigs are being sought for a government study being conducted in the small town of Hawkins, she finds herself embroiled in a disturbing project – code name MKUltra. Dark-colored vans, a laboratory hidden deep in the woods, hallucinogenic substances administered by researchers as mute as tombs... Terry, young and idealistic, is determined to lift the veil on the shenanigans of the disturbing Dr. Brenner.
Because behind the walls of the Hawkins National Laboratory, the scale of the conspiracy exceeds anything she could have imagined. To meet the challenge, he will need the help of the other guinea pigs, who have become his comrades in arms... starting with a little girl with astonishing powers whose name is a simple number, Eight. Terry and Dr. Brenner will therefore wage a new kind of war, the battlefield of which is none other than the human brain...
Would you like to know how Eleven came into the world? Stranger Things – Suspicious Minds lifts the veil on the events that precede the famous Duffer brothers series, and follows the adventures of the young heroine's mother, enlisted in a frightening mental manipulation program.