02409cim a2200445 i 4500 540564736 TxAuBib 20211207120000.0 d 211004s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593458815 compact discs 0593458818 compact discs TxAuBib rda Follett, Ken. Never [Audiobook] : a novel. Unabridged edition. New York : Penguin Random House Audio, 2021. 19 audio discs (24 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. spw rdacontent s rdamedia sd rdacarrier Read by January LaVoy. “Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn’t get fixed.” So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in 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 president 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 read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable. 20211207. Deserts Fiction. Terrorists Fiction. Politics Fiction. Global crises Fiction. Geopolitics United States Fiction. Geopolitics China Fiction. Escalation (Military science) Fiction. Nuclear warfare Fiction. Chemical warfare Fiction. Intelligence officers Fiction. Women presidents Fiction. Presidents Fiction. World politics Fiction. LaVoy, January, narrator. BSBPL