"EVERY CATASTROPHE BEGINS with a little problem that doesn't get fixed."  So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drama of international tension.

A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis.

Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover with jihadists; a brilliant Chinese spymaster; and Pauline herself, beleaguered by a populist rival for the next presidential election.

Never is an extraordinary novel, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries.  It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding listen that transports listeners to the brink of the unimaginable.

KEN FOLLETT is one of the world's best-loved authors, selling more than 178 million copies of his thirty-six books.  Follett's first bestseller was Eye of the Needle, a spy story set in the Second World War.  In 1989, The Pillars of the Earth was published and has since become Follett's most popular novel.  It reached number one on bestseller lists around the world and was an Oprah's Book Club pick.  Its sequels, World Without End and A Column of Fire, and the prequel The Evening and the Morning, proved equally popular, and the Kingsbridge series has sold more than forty-seven million copies worldwide.

JANUARY LaVOY is a stage, television, and voice actress.  She appeared on Broadway in Enron, and is best known for her portrayal of Noelle Ortiz on One Life to Live.  She was honored as "Audiobook Narrator of the Year" by Publishers Weekly in 2013.

NEVER
is also available in print from Viking.