Mind Prey
the best suspenseful crime mystery novel full of adventure you'll read in 2024
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4.6 • 38 Ratings
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- $14.99
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Publisher Description
A LUCAS DAVENPORT THRILLER BY GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN SANDFORD
He knows how killers think. But what if this killer knows more?
It's raining when psychiatrist Andi Manette leaves the parent-teacher meeting with her two daughters. She’s tired and distracted, so she doesn't notice the red van parked beside her, or the van door slide open. The last thing she does notice is the hand reaching out for her and her girls . . .
Hours later, deputy chief Lucas Davenport stands in the car park holding a blood-stained shoe in his hand. He knows that this case will be difficult, but he’s got no idea that he might have met his match in a nemesis more intelligent – and more depraved – than any he has tracked before. A killer who knows more about mind games than even Davenport himself.
Time is running out to find Andi and her daughters.
Will this be the one case that Davenport can’t solve?
Praise for John Sandford
‘A big, scary, suspenseful read and I loved every minute of it’ Stephen King
‘Delivers twists to the very last sentence’ Daily Mail
‘John Sandford knows all there is to know about detonating the gut-level shocks of a good thriller' The New York Times Book Review
‘Reads like a breath of fresh air’ Daily Mirror
‘A cop and a killer you will remember for a long, long time’ Robert B. Parker
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Minneapolis PD Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport, seen last in Night Prey, carries on as a smart, quirky hero in the seventh ``Prey'' book. When psychiatrist Andi Manette and her two young daughters are kidnapped, Lucas must discover whether it's a ransom snatch, the work of one of Andi's ex-patients or the ruse of someone in her life who might benefit from her death. (Her father, stepmother, estranged husband and medical partner are all good suspects.) Readers know the kidnapper is John Mail, a scary ex-patient who's entertained nasty dreams of Andi for years. He enacts his violent sex fantasies with the imprisoned Andi; it seems only a matter of time before he will go after the girls. Lucas, meanwhile, draws on all available resources, including his own computer game company, to flush out Mail, a gamer who enjoys taunting Lucas with phone calls. During this time, Andi has been trying to maintain an element of control and contrive an escape. Sandford expertly ratchets up the suspense from beginning to the brutal finish. Lucas does get his villain, but no one comes out of this experience unscarred. Literary Guild main; Doubleday Book Club alternate.
