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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Source ISBN: 9780008303723
Ebook Edition © May 2019 ISBN: 9780008303747
Version: 2019-04-26
‘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
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
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