Lucas continues to speak with Mail on his cell phone, receiving clues at Mail's whim. Andi pries two of these springs out of the mattress and they sharpen them, not only to help remove the nail, but to use as weapons as well. Then Grace lays on the mattress provided to them and discovers a broken spring. The nail is deeply embedded, however, and they begin to despair at the chance they will ever be able to remove it. Andi and Grace begin working the nail out of the wood together, devising a plan to use it when the opportunity presents itself. Andi spots a nail in a beam on the ceiling. Andi begins looking for something, anything, that can be used as a weapon. Andi also becomes frightened that Mail will begin turning his attention on her oldest child, Grace. Andi endures these rapes, but they begin to take a toll on her sanity. In fact, Mail did take the youngest of Andi's daughters and promised to drop her off at a local mall, but the child has not been heard from since.Īs Lucas continues his investigation, Mail begins a campaign of terror against Andi, forcing his sexual fantasies on her. An oil barrel as been left at the location with a doll inside, suggesting that one of Andi's daughters has been killed. When Lucas checks out this clue, it is discovered that Mail has left him a gift. The first call gives Lucas a clue to a location. At the same time, Mail begins calling Lucas. Lucas has a team of investigators begin searching through Andi's patient files, much to the chagrin of her partner, in hopes that one of them might offer a clue to the identity of Mail. Lucas helps develop a better description of Mail with the help of his game store friend, but is still no closer to discover Mail's true identity. Lucas visits a friend at a local game store where he meets Mail but is unaware of who the man is until he is already gone. One of these interviews yields the detail that Mail was wearing an obscure t-shirt associated with a gaming convention. Lucas spends the first night interviewing witness and speaking to people close to Andi. Lucas's first thought is a crime of greed, but it is too early to be sure. Lucas begins by interviewing Andi's father, a wealthy business man, and her husband, also a very wealthy real estate developer. Lucas Davenport, deputy chief and game designer, is one of the best detectives in Minneapolis and he has joined the case. Within minutes the police are on the scene of the kidnapping, beginning to put together the evidence in a way they hope will help them find Andi and her daughters. The man turns out to be John Mail, a patient Andi treated in prison at the beginning of her psychiatrist career. Mind Prey is perhaps the most haunting of Sandford's Prey series, keeping readers on the edge of their seats until the final page.Īndi Manette and her daughters are leaving a parent-teacher conference when a man forces them into a van. This instinct seems to be confirmed when Mail begins calling Lucas, giving him cryptic hints to the well being and location of Andi and her daughters. Lucas begins the case focusing on greed as a motive, but begins to believe a patient of psychologist Andi Manette may behind the kidnapping. In Mind Prey, Lucas is called in on a kidnapping case involving the daughter of wealthy businessman Tower Manette. Mind Prey is John Sandford's seventh novel featuring Lucas Davenport.
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