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Title details for The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver - Available

The Never Game

#1 in series

by Jeffery Deaver
Kaleo Griffith
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No.1 international bestseller Jeffery Deaver returns with a stunning new thriller – the first in an exciting series featuring enigmatic investigator Colter Shaw.
A killer is changing the rules. One murder at a time ... You wake up all alone, in the middle of a forest, miles from anywhere. Beside you lie five objects – a lighter, grease, picture-frame wire, a piece of silk, a bottle of water – which you will need to use if you want to survive. You've been taken by the Whispering Man and there is no escape. He makes the rules and nobody ever gets out alive. Enigmatic investigator Colter Shaw is fighting to stop the murders. But another victim has been snatched from her family and he's running out of time. In the darkest corner of Silicon Valley, a new breed of killer is emerging: someone with a deadly obsession, whose twisted game is spiralling out of control.
"The Never Game is the very definition of a page-turner." IAN RANKIN

  • Creators

  • Series

    Colter Shaw

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    June 1, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780008350192
      • File size: 326239 KB
      • Duration: 11:19:39

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Colter Shaw, the protagonist of Jeffery Deaver's latest audiobook, who claims to be psychic, devotes his life to solving crimes and locating missing persons with the goal of receiving the monetary rewards being offered. Narrator Kaleo Griffith's understated performance allows listeners to parse each character's personality while avoiding the incredulity that could result from Shaw's ability to see nuances that police and other investigators consistently miss. The story takes Shaw to Silicon Valley and its environs, where he pursues a kidnapper who is reenacting a violent video game in real time. Suspects range from corporate executives to a woman he befriends during his investigation. A lesser narrator could have diminished the story's twists and surprising conclusion, but thanks to Griffith, the audiobook is consistently entertaining. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from March 18, 2019
      Colter Shaw, the hero of this superb series launch from Thriller Award winner Deaver (the Lincoln Rhyme series), travels around the U.S. in an RV, earning rewards for finding missing persons, fugitives, and “suspects who have not yet been identified or located.” In the prologue, Colter attempts to rescue a kidnapped pregnant woman, Elizabeth Chabelle, from a sinking fishing vessel off the California coast. With Elizabeth’s fate in doubt, the action moves back two days, when Colter goes looking for 19-year-old Sophie Mulliner in Silicon Valley. Sophie vanished after an argument with her father, who was unable to get the authorities to take his fear that she was attacked and kidnapped seriously. Colter does, and manages to locate suggestive evidence—Sophie’s cell phone, a bloodied rock, and a plastic shard that may have come from the teen’s bike. That investigation proves to be just the tip of the iceberg after the person who abducted Sophie strikes again and Colter finds parallels between the crimes and a creepy video game called The Whispering Man. Fans of twisty suspense that pushes the envelope of plausibility without inviting disbelief will be enthralled. Author tour. Agent: Deborah Schneider, Gelfman Schneider Literary.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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