Lucas Davenport confronts a living nightmare, in one of the spookiest Prey novels yet from the number-one bestselling author.The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas knows, is pushed by brain chemistry, there is something wrong with him. This isn't a bad love affair.The second body is found three weeks later, in a farmhouse six miles south. Same condition, same display——except this time it is a man. Nothing to link the two victims, nothing to indicate that the killings end here."This guy..." Lucas said. He took a deep breath, let it out as a sigh. "This guy is gonna bust our chops."And soon he is going to do far, far worse than that.A suspect emerges early: a man recently released from a prison hospital who now seems to have cut himself free from his court imposed ankle bracelet and disappeared. But the more Lucas investigates, the more he wonders: Is this really the man? Could he really have done this all by himself? And where has he gone, anyway?And meanwhile, a predator waits.