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The first installment in Jeffery Deaver's Colter Shaw series--soon to be a CBS series starring Justin Hartley.
The son of a survivalist family, Colter Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a "reward seeker," traveling the country to help police solve crimes and locate missing persons for private citizens.
"You've been abandoned. Escape if you can. Or die with dignity."
Hired by the father of a young woman who has gone missing in Silicon Valley, Shaw's search takes him into the dark heart of America's cutthroat billion-dollar video-game industry. When another person goes missing, Shaw must ask: Is a madman bringing a twisted video game to life?
Encountering eccentric designers, trigger-happy gamers, and ruthless tech titans, Shaw soon learns that he isn't the only one on the hunt: someone is on his trail and closing fast....
Named a Crime Novel of the Year by The New York Times Book Review , The Never Game proves once more why "Deaver is a genius when it comes to manipulation and deception" (Associated Press).
Author Notes
Jeffery Deaver was born on May 6, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois. He received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University. Before attending law school, he worked as a business writer. After law school, he worked for a Wall Street law firm practicing corporate law. In 1990, he decided to stop practicing law and become a full-time writer.
His first novel was a horror story entitled Voodoo. He is the author of more than 25 novels and has written some of those stories under the pseudonym William Jeffries. He writes the Lincoln Rhyme series and the Kathryn Dance series. A Maiden's Grave was adapted into a film by HBO called Dead Silence and The Bone Collector was adapted into a feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. He received the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association, the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year three times, and the British Thumping Good Read Award.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (5)
Publisher's Weekly Review
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. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Colter Shaw is a reward seeker. Parents, husbands, wives offer rewards for the safe return of their missing loved ones; Colter finds the missing people and claims the rewards. Not, perhaps, the most altruistic of vocations, but Colter, the son of survivalist parents, is very good at what he does. In this first installment of a new series by the author of the Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance thrillers, Shaw navigates the duplicitous world of Silicon Valley to find a missing woman; when another person goes missing, Shaw realizes this is much more than one case of kidnapping. Shaw is a carefully constructed character with a rich backstory that could spark several novels (his own family history features a particularly tantalizing mystery). The story is this will come as no surprise to Deaver's many fans full of twists and right-angle turns, and a second Colter Shaw novel feels not just inevitable but mandatory. Deaver is a hit maker who always delivers the goods.--David Pitt Copyright 2019 Booklist
Guardian Review
After her award-winning fictionalised account of a 1950s serial killer, The Long Drop , Denise Mina returns to the present day with Conviction (Harvill Secker, £14.99), a thoroughly modern tale of sexual and financial predation and social media. Anna McDonald is on the run from an unspecified traumatic incident in her past. Having fled London, she has reinvented herself in Glasgow, and is now partner to lawyer Hamish and mother to Jess and Lizzie. A fan of true crime podcasts, she has just started Death and the Dana, the story of a sunken yacht with a murdered family on board, when Hamish announces that he is leaving her. Distraught, Anna runs away once more and finds herself trying to determine what really happened to Leon Parker, the man found dead on the yacht, with whom she has a connection. The initial impetus for the investigation may be a stretch, but the narrative is plausible and compelling, as the mysteries of Parker's fate and Anna's past unfold in parallel and collide, dangerously, in the present. The first book in Jeffery Deaver's new series, The Never Game (HarperCollins, £20), also begins with a sinking boat, as the protagonist Colter Shaw struggles to rescue a heavily pregnant woman from the Pacific Ocean. Her fate still in the balance, we rewind two days to when Shaw - an altruistic loner who learned tracking skills from his survivalist father and now travels around the US finding missing persons - strikes out on the trail of a Silicon Valley teenager whose disappearance the authorities refuse to take seriously. When a second person is abducted, Shaw starts to discover alarming parallels with a video game called The Whispering Man, in which players must find a way to escape from a perilous situation with only five objects to help them. So far, so nail-biting, although tech-heavy descriptions soon start to clog up the narrative flow, and clumsy use of withholding devices towards the end may leave fans of Deaver's other series hero Lincoln Rhyme feeling shortchanged. There are more survivalist skills on display in The River by Peter Heller (W&N, £14.99). Student buddies Wynn and Jack are on a canoeing trip in the Canadian wilderness. The fog has settled and, realising that a wildfire is heading in their direction, the pair decide to turn back and warn a couple they overheard arguing on the bank. They find only the husband, Pierre, who claims that his wife has disappeared. Fearing that he may have harmed her - his behaviour is suspicious, and he has an unexplained injury - they investigate and find her alive, but badly injured. With no way of summoning help, they are soon engaged in a race for their lives against not only the fire, the weather and the wildlife, but also the potentially homicidal Pierre. Divisions between easygoing optimist Wynn and cynical pessimist Jack grow as their predicament worsens, and there is plenty of tension here, but where Heller really scores is the extraordinarily high quality of his writing about the natural world, which is lyrical and action-packed by turns. The danger is much closer to home in Crushed by Kate Hamer (Faber, £12.99), an exploration of the dark heart of female adolescence that makes good use of its Bath setting. Overwrought Phoebe's belief that she is a witch is fuelled by her study of Macbeth ; sweet-natured, compliant Orla is hopelessly in love with her; and tough-minded Grace juggles school with caring for her bedridden mother. Rather than mystery, family traumas and teenage hysteria fuel the baggy plot, and when Phoebe begins a clandestine relationship with her English teacher, it's clearly not going to end well. The folklore surrounding witches and changelings is very much to the fore in Melanie Golding's first novel, Little Darlings (HQ, £12.99). Exhausted new mother Lauren Tranter is convinced that somebody is trying to steal her twin babies but nobody, including her obviously bad-egg husband, believes her. Detective Sergeant Jo Harper's intuition tells her that there's more to the situation than meets the eye - and then the babies are taken during an outing to a park. This debut is atmospheric and very creepy indeed. Parker Bilal, author of the Cairo-based Makana Mysteries, has begun a new series set in London, featuring DS Calil Drake and forensic psychiatrist Rayhana Crane. The Divinities (Indigo, £8.99) begins with two bodies found trussed and buried alive under a mound of rock on a Battersea building site. It has many of the tropes of the traditional police procedural, including savage internal politics and a detective with emotional baggage who is trying to get his stalled career back on track. However, a plot involving unfettered capitalism, fundamentalist zealotry and racism, refracted through the eyes of the two mixed-race protagonists who are forced to mine their pasts serving in Iraq for answers, results in a propulsive narrative. This is a fresh and vivid portrait of a city that is less melting pot than explosive pressure cooker.
Kirkus Review
Veteran thrillmeister Deaver kicks off a new series about a man who collects rewards for a living.Don't call Colter Shaw a private eye, or a freelance investigator, or even a soldier of fortune, though his job includes elements of all three. The son of a cranky survivalist who died years ago amid suspicious circumstances, light-footed Shaw has returned close to his childhood home in the Bay Area in the hope of claiming the $10,000 Frank Mulliner is offering for the return of his daughter, Sophie, a college student who stormed out after the two of them fought over the FOR SALE sign outside his house and hasn't been seen since. Shaw, who has the cool-headed but irritating habit of calculating the numerical odds on every possibility, thinks there's a 60 percent chance that Sophie's dead, "murdered by a serial killer, rapist or a gang wannabe." Even though he accepts rewards only for rescues, not recoveries, he begins sorting through the scant evidence, quickly gets a hot lead about Sophie's fate, and just as quickly realizes that Detective Dan Wiley, of the Joint Major Crimes Task Force, should have followed exactly the same clues days ago. (The rapidly shifting relations between Shaw and the law, in fact, are a particular high point here.) The day after Shaw's search for Sophie comes to a violent end, he's already, in the time-honored manner of Deaver's bulldog heroes (The Burial Hour, 2017, etc.), on the trail of a second abduction, that of LGBT activist Henry Thompson. Readers who haven't skipped the prologue will know that still a third kidnap victim, very pregnant Elizabeth Chabelle, will need to be rescued the following day. Thompson's grief-stricken partner, Brian Byrd, tells Shaw, "It's like this guy's playing some goddamn sick game"a remark Deaver's fans will know to give just as much weight as Shaw himself does.For once Deaver takes more effort to establish his hero's bona fides than to give him a compelling and logical plot. The results are subpar for this initial installment but more encouraging for the promised series. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
Colter Shaw is a "rewardist"-a civilian who travels around the country finding missing persons and escaped fugitives for a living. He is uniquely qualified for such a job. Raised off the grid on his family's extensive compound, he spent his formative years hunting, tracking, and perfecting the art of survival. The story opens with Colter searching for a missing college student in Silicon Valley whom he eventually finds imprisoned in an abandoned warehouse seemingly left to die. No sooner has he returned her to her family when another innocent in the area is abducted. Colter begins to connect these kidnappings to the popular video game The Whispering Man, and the case veers off into the unusual and extremely profitable world of gaming. A race against the clock ensues as Colter pits his old-school tracking and detecting skills against the high-tech tools of a worthy antagonist. Award-winning author Deaver ("Lincoln Rhyme" series) introduces an engaging new protagonist with staying power. Colter's backstory is fascinating and his persona as much a part of the tale as the crime itself. VERDICT This is a sure bet for fans of suspense and will find a home with those who like their protagonists to be a central part of the mystery. [See Prepub Alert, 11/12/18.]-Amy Nolan, St. Joseph, MI © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.