Mind Prey Themes

Mind Prey Themes

Mental Illness

Andi Manette is a psychiatrist. Andi sees many patients on a daily basis, specializing in criminal behavior, such as child molestation. When Andi is kidnapped along with her two young daughters, police immediately begin to focus on her patients. In Andi's files at her practice police find several cases in which Andi mentions patients attempting to flirt or make passes at her and still others in which Andi failed to report an active child molester. However, the police cannot find a patient whom they can believe is the man behind the kidnapping.

At the same time, John Mail, the kidnapper, becomes increasingly violent with Andi as he holds her and her two daughter's captive. Andi is repeatedly beaten and raped. As the days go by, Andi begins to lose control of her own mind, often speaking to people who are not there. At the same time, Andi begins to worry...
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