Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds : The First Official Novel

A mysterious lab. A sinister scientist. A secret history. If you think you know the truth behind Eleven s mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in this thrilling prequel to the hit show Stranger Things. It s the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America, both at home and abroad. As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of Indiana, Terry Ives couldn t be farther from the front lines of Vietnam or the incendiary protests in Washington. But the world is changing, and Terry isn t content to watch from the sidelines. When word gets around about an important government experiment in the small town of Hawkins, she signs on as a test subject for the project, code-named MKULTRA. Unmarked vans, a remote lab deep in the woods, mind-altering substances administered by tight-lipped researchers . . . and a mystery the young and restless Terry is determined to uncover. But behind the walls of Hawkins National Laboratory-and the piercing gaze of its director, Dr. Martin Brenner-lurks a conspiracy greater than Terry could have ever imagined. To face it, she ll need the help of her fellow test subjects, including one so mysterious the world doesn t know she exists-a young girl with unexplainable superhuman powers and a number instead of a name: 008. Amid the rising tensions of the new decade, Terry Ives and Martin Brenner have begun a different kind of war-one where the human mind is the battlefield.