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2000s: There’s an asylum in the Swiss Alps….
The Double
What you need to know before your trail
Following a violent outburst at an awards ceremony, Vidor Kiraly, a prize-winning neuroscientist and Cambridge don, is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic in the Swiss Alps.
When the clinic’s director, Anton Gessen, tries in vain to unearth the missing pieces of Vidor’s life, he suspects his reluctant patient is not who he appears to be.
After one of the patients at the clinic goes missing, Gessen has reason to doubt Vidor’s self-proclaimed innocence. But what is he hiding, and who might be next?
Travel Guide
A remote psychiatric clinic in the Swiss Alps.
The village of Saint Odile is fictional but when you think there’s an asylum and a weird one at that, then just as well it is fictional. Somewhere in the Swiss Alps, there is no one to hear you, rescue you or even see you. Snow covered mountains and a long way if you want to escape.
The clinic is sterile and unwelcoming, the patients troubled and the staff…well there’s something not quite right there too.
Chilling and remote.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Double
Destination/location: Swiss Alps Author/guide: Ann Gosslin Departure Time: 2000s
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