Pauline Green, the United States's first female President, tries to avoid war when an act of aggression escalates and the world's greatest powers are caught up in a tangled web of alliances. With the aid of a young intelligence officer in Chad, an undercover spy in Northern Africa, and a Chinese spymaster, Green must use all her political savvy to save the world in this epic political thriller.

Follett states that he wanted to write a modern WWI story, about a war that no one wanted but the political alliances forced upon the world. I had forgotten how much I love political thrillers, and Never served up the perfect combination of relatable characters and plausible global politics that kept me glued to the page as the world is on the brink of war.