No.1 international bestseller Jeffery Deaver returns with a stunning thriller – the first in an exciting series featuring enigmatic investigator Colter Shaw.

Escape or die trying…

Three people are kidnapped across California.

Sophie is locked inside a derelict warehouse.

Henry is abandoned in remote woodland.

Elizabeth is trapped inside a sinking ship.

They are alive, but don’t have much time to live…

Only one man can save them: unique investigator Colter Shaw. He’s an expert tracker with a forensic mind, but this will be a test even for him.

Because this killer isn’t following the rules; he’s changing them. One murder at a time…

‘No one in the world does this kind of thing better than Deaver’ Lee Child

Deaver’s most riveting, most twisty, most unputdownable novel yet’ Karin Slaughter

‘Deaver grips from the very first line and never lets up’ Peter James

‘The very definition of a page-turner’ Ian Rankin

‘Lightning-fast and loaded with twists’ Harlan Coben

‘With The Never Game you know you are in the hands of a master’ Peter Robinson