The Institute

by Robert Petyo

Alex Commoner had heard of the bizarre experiments on human life that took place at "The Institute". One day, two strange men took his friend Richard away. The, while searching for her husband, Richard's wife suddenly vanished. Alex knew that "The Institute" was responsible. And in spite of the risk, he was determined to penetrate the awesome secret of it laboratories.

219 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Robert Petyo is a Derringer award finalist whose stories have appeared in small press magazines and anthologies, most recently in The Black Beacon Book of Mystery, We’re All Animals Under the Skin, Asinine Assassins, Careless Love, Now There Was a Story, Whodunit, Mickey Finn Noir, Another Dimension, Stonewall Detectives, Strictly Off the Record, More Groovy Gumshoes, and Crimeucopia: Boomshakalaking. Though he mainly writes crime fiction, he has published some science fiction in small press magazines, and in the deep dark past he wrote three science fiction
novels under three different names. He can be reached on Twitter or Facebook @RobertPetyo