The Never Game

A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Crime Novel of the Year Now in paperback, the first installment in the new series by master of suspense Jeffery Deaver--about which, Lee Child raves, No one in the world does this kind of thing better. You have been abandoned. A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. The son of a survivalist family, Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a reward seeker, traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons. But what seems a simple investigation quickly thrusts him into the dark heart of America´s tech hub and the cutthroat billion-dollar video-gaming industry. Escape if you can. When another victim is kidnapped, the clues point to one video game with a troubled past--The Whispering Man. In that game, the player has to survive after being abandoned in an inhospitable setting with five random objects. Is a madman bringing the game to life? Or die with dignity. Shaw finds himself caught in a cat-and-mouse game, risking his own life to save the victims even as he pursues the kidnapper across both Silicon Valley and the dark Net. Encountering eccentric game designers, trigger-happy gamers and ruthless tech titans, he soon learns that he isn´t the only one on the hunt: someone is on his trail and closing fast. The Never Game proves once more why Deaver is a genius when it comes to manipulation and deception (Associated Press).