The Never Game

These are the rules : You are taken away and isolated. You will be given five objects. It’s up to you how you use them to free yourself before time runs out. OK, are you ready to play? Play .. or die Can't escape .... die Colter Shaw is hired by a missing woman's father. Colter is a kind of reward seeker, He travels all over the country helping police departments solve cold cases, sometimes, as in this case, he looks for missing people. What seems to be a fairly easy job for him turns into something totally unexpected. 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? He soon learns he is not the only one hunting ... someone has targeted him. A new series, this is sheer non-stop action with dubious characters swirling around Silicon Valley. What he finds are game designers, gamers who are a little bizarre, and the techies at the top of the charts. The characters are solidly defined and bring life to a complex plot and intriguing story line. Many thanks to the author / G.P. Putnam's Sons / Netgalley for the digital copy of this crime fiction. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

The narrator was monotone and didn't keep my focus. The story would jump back and forth between time periods and you would never know.