Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF 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. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. 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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