"Asylum" is a terrific book, and I'm sure it will make a terrific movie.This is the story of the wife of a deputy superintendent of a mental hospital (as told by a family friend/hospital colleague). The wife falls passionately in love with a mental patient and seems to be completely out of control as a result. Nothing drives her but this passion. The passion eventually destroys everyone around her.The narrator of the story, who you grow to trust and respect deeply, turns out to be possibly as passtionately obsessed as the woman.Bottom line: A page-turning thriller.