The Never Game. Jeffery Deaver

      

      

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      Copyright © Gunner Publications, LLC 2019

      Cover design by Claire Ward © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019

      Cover photographs © Shutterstock.com

      Jeffery Deaver asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008303723

      Ebook Edition © May 2019 ISBN: 9780008303747

      Version: 2020-04-28

       Praise for The Never Game:

      ‘The Never Game is the very definition of a page-turner’

      IAN RANKIN

      ‘Terrific writing, vivid and raw, Deaver grips from the very first line and never lets up. He is, hands-down, one of the finest thriller writers of our time’

      PETER JAMES

      ‘As always, Deaver gets you in his stealthy grip on page one, and then takes you on a wild and inventive ride … this time with new star character Colter Shaw. No one in the world does this kind of thing better than Deaver’

      LEE CHILD

      ‘Masterful storytelling – The Never Game is Deaver’s most riveting, most twisty, most unputdownable novel yet’

      KARIN SLAUGHTER

      ‘Lightning-fast and loaded with twists, The Never Game is a thrill a minute from one of the best. Don’t miss it’

      HARLAN COBEN

      ‘Jeffery Deaver scores yet again with a fascinating new detective, Colter Shaw, and a plot as full of thrills and twists and turns as you would expect from him. With The Never Game you know you are in the hands of a master. But be warned – don’t start this too late in the evening because sleep would be an annoying interruption once you’ve started reading!’

      PETER ROBINSON

       Also By Jeffery Deaver

      NOVELS

       The Lincoln Rhyme Series

      The Cutting Edge

      The Burial Hour

      The Steel Kiss

      The Skin Collector

      The Kill Room

      The Burning Wire

      The Broken Window

      The Cold Moon

      The Twelfth Card

      The Vanished Man

      The Stone Monkey

      The Empty Chair

      The Coffin Dancer

      The Bone Collector

       The Kathryn Dance Series

      Solitude Creek

      XO

      Roadside Crosses

      The Sleeping Doll

       The Rune Series

      Hard News

      Death of a Blue Movie Star

      Manhattan is My Beat

       The John Pellam Series

      Hell’s Kitchen

      Bloody River Blues

      Shallow Graves

       Stand-alones

      The October List

      No Rest for the Dead (Contributor)

      Carte Blanche (A James Bond Novel)

      Watchlist (Contributor)

      Edge

      The Bodies Left Behind

      Garden of Beasts

      The Blue Nowhere

      Speaking in Tongues

      The Devil’s Teardrop

      A Maiden’s Grave

      Praying For Sleep

      The Lesson of Her Death

      Mistress of Justice

       SHORT FICTION

       Collections

      A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime (Editor)

      Trouble in Mind

      Triple Threat

      Books to Die For (Contributor)

      The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (Editor)

      More Twisted

      Twisted

       Stories

      Ninth and Nowhere

      Captivated

      The Victims’ Club

      Surprise Ending

      Double Cross

      The Deliveryman

      A Textbook Case

       Dedication

       To M and P