Lucas Davenport confronts a living nightmare， in one of the scariest Prey novels yet from the number-one bestselling author. The "Big Three" are a trio of inmates locked up in the Minnesota Security Hospital over the years， each a particularly vicious serial killer， each with his own distinct style and propensities. Everybody feels much safer knowing that they re behind bars. Except . . . there s a new killer on the loose. And his handiwork bears a disturbing resemblance to some of the finer points practiced by the Big Three， details that never even made the papers. Davenport and his team quickly home in on a possible suspect， a man named Charlie Pope， who was released from the same hospital prison a few weeks earlier， and who now seems to have cut himself free from his court-imposed ankle bracelet and disappeared. But is he really the one? And why do the Big Three look so agitated? Brilliantly suspenseful， consistently surprising-once again， Sandford has outdone himself.