Escape or die trying…

No.1 international bestseller Jeffery Deaver results with a sensational new thriller – the first in an interesting series featuring enigmatic investigator Colter Shaw.

‘Masterful storytelling – The Hardly ever Game is usually Deaver’s most riveting, most twisty, most unputdownable novel yet’ Karin Slaughter

A student kidnapped in the park.

Nineteen-year-old Sophie disappears one summer months afternoon. She wakes up to discover about The By no means Video game: The gripping fresh thriller through the No.1 bestselling author herself locked inside a derelict warehouse, surrounded by five items. If she uses them wisely, she will escape her prison. Usually she will expire.

An investigator running out of your time.

Sophie’s distraught father calls in the one guy who can help look for his girl: unique investigator Colter Shaw. Raised in the wilderness by survivalist parents, he’s a specialist tracker with a forensic brain trained to resolve the most challenging cases. But this is a test also for him.

A killer playing a dangerous game.

Shortly a blogger called Henry is abducted – still left to die at night heart of the remote control forest – and the whole case gets fired up its mind. Because this killer isn’t following rules; he’s changing them. One murder at a time…

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

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

‘Deaver grips from the 1st line and never let us up’ Peter Wayne

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

‘Lightning-fast and loaded with twists’ Harlan Coben

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