Mantis Author:Richard La Plante A police lieutenant and a forensic pathologist hunt a serial killer. Both men are haunted by guilt: the doctor accidentally crippled his brother in a karate tournament, and the lieutenant killed his beloved wife and daughter by driving drunk. The killer, warped by childhood abuse, seeks to achieve a higher plane of existence in an Oriental disci... more »pline based on the hunting technique of the praying mantis. He has been honing his skills on his victims but realizes that his own death will release him; he sees the doctor as his means to that end. The doctor realizes that he, too, has been courting death, and that his confrontation with the killer will force him to decide whether to live or die.« less