Lucas Davenport has met his match-a brilliant, wanton killer who knows more about mind games than Lucas himself. This man is more depraved and intelligent than anybody Lucas has tracked before-and with a female psychiatrist in his trap, he's already one step ahead of Lucas...
Praise for John Sandford’s Prey Novels “Relentlessly swift...genuinely suspenseful...excellent.”—
Los Angeles Times “Sandford is a writer in control of his craft.”—
Chicago Sun-Times “Excellent...compelling...everything works.”—
USA Today “Grip-you-by-the-throat thrills...a hell of a ride.”—
Houston Chronicle “Crackling, page-turning tension...great scary fun.”—
The New York Daily News “Enough pulse-pounding, page-turning excitement to keep you up way past bedtime.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune “One of the most engaging characters in contemporary fiction.”—
Detroit News “Positively chilling.”—
St. Petersburg Times “Just right for fans of
The Silence of the Lambs.”—
Booklist “One of the most horrible villains this side of Hannibal.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch “Ice-pick chills...excruciatingly tense...a double-pumped roundhouse of a thriller.”
—Kirkus ReviewsJohn Sandfordis the pseudonym of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of the Prey novels, the Kidd novels, the Virgil Flowers novels,
The Night Crew, and
Dead Watch.He lives in New Mexico.
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