She barely noticed the red van parked beside her, barely noticed the van door slide open as they dashed up to the car. It was raining when psychiatrist Andi Manette left the parent teacher conference with her two young daughters, and she was distracted. When Davenport who’s been revitalized by the case at last recovers the photo, the Iceman’s surprising identity is revealed, leading to a furious climactic chase on snowmobiles through dark woods and howling wind and to Davenport and the Iceman each having a tte…įrom the bestselling author of night prey and winter prey…Īn all new Lucas Davenport thriller.
Meanwhile, the Iceman slays anyone who might know about the photo which, it turns out, shows him having sex with a local boy, his first victim: The Iceman heads a child porn ring. His investigation which hinges on retrieving the photo before the Iceman does stalls in the face of challenging puzzles centering on time of death and a seemingly reluctant witness, but it also butts him up against some marvelous characters, including a female M.D. Arriving in town, Davenport, who’s at loose ends in his life, finds himself facing two enemies: the Iceman, but also record cold and snow that’s frozen the town into a death trap. When the bodies are found, the local sheriff calls in Davenport to help. It’s a gruesome start, but Sandford splatters the gore mostly off page, relying on suspense and there’s plenty of it to jangle readers’ nerves. The killer, who calls himself the Iceman” for his sang froid, debuts in the creepy opening pages by stalking an isolated house, gunning down the woman inside, chopping up her husband, and torturing their daughter all in a failed attempt to retrieve an incriminating photo that’s fallen into the victims’ hands. Ex cop and master gamesman Lucas Davenport takes on a crazed killer ravaging a small Wisconsin town. He lives in New Mexico.10 Audio CD discs. He is the author of the Prey novels, the Kidd novels, the Virgil Flowers novels, The Night Crew, and Dead Watch. "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 ReviewsĪbout the Author John Sandford is the pseudonym of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. Petersburg Times "Just right for fans of The Silence of the Lambs."- Booklist "Crackling, page-turning eat 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 "Sandford is a writer in control of his craft."- Chicago Sun-Times " works."- USA Today "Grip-you-by-the-throat thrills.a hell of a ride."- Houston Chronicle "Relentlessly swift.genuinely suspenseful.excellent."- Los Angeles Times 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.
About the Book In the wake of the abduction of a woman and her two young daughters, deputy chief Lucas Davenport faces the most challenging case of his career, while the victim, psychiatrist Andi Manette, applies all her skills to outwit her captor.īook Synopsis Lucas Davenport has met his match-a brilliant, wanton killer who knows more about mind games than Lucas himself.
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