Book 9: Praying for Sleep

Jeffery Deaver's Praying for Sleep. This was s fun one. A schizophrenic patient/prisoner escapes and sets off on some sort of mission. Hunting for him/trying to hide from him are doctors, police, a tracker, and everyday folk who have had meaningful interactions with him in the past.



It's kind of like Halloween in that the guy is huge and doesn't feel pain, but is hell-bent on completing his mission. We can't understand what it is that he wants until the very end, and of course Deaver puts in plenty of plot twists. Several characters have surprising secrets.

The patient, Michael, is very interested in Abe Lincoln (Happy Late Birthday!) and also in language. He makes a lot of connections between different words. He writes secret messages by capitalizing some letters within his missive (the caps spell out a phrase which is the real message). It's fun!