Private London
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SOMETIMES WHEN THE NIGHTMARE ENDS - THE TERROR IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING
For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private - the world's most exclusive detective agency - saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again.
In central London, young women are being abducted off the street. When the bodies are found, some days later, they have been mutilated in a particularly mysterious way. Dan Carter's ex-wife, DI Kirsty Webb, is involved in the investigation and it looks likely that the two cases are gruesomely linked.
Dan Carter draws on the whole resources of Private International in a desperate race against the odds. But the clock is ticking... Private may be the largest and most technologically advanced detection agency in the world, but the only thing they don't have is the one thing they need - time.
James Patterson's white-knuckle rollercoaster has just reached London. Buckle up, it's one hell of a ride!
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21 primary books24 released booksPrivate
Private is a 24-book series with 18 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, and Mark Pearson.
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BLUF: Not amazing, but not bad - this book is somewhere in the middle. It can be read as a standalone.
Private London follows two detectives: Kirsty Webb, who works for the police, and Dan Carter, who works for Private's London branch. Kirsty Webb is working to find a serial killer who preys on young women. Dan Carter's current assignments is to watch over and protect the daughter of a wealthy businessman – but when she is abducted, he is in a race against time to save her before she becomes the next victim.
The synopsis wants you to believe that Hannah's abduction could be related to the serial killer, but we are brought into the book so quickly that any notion that these events are connected only lasts briefly. Instead of intertwined cases, these cases are pretty separate. The only work mixture between the two ex-lovers is that the police are working the abduction case at the same time as Dan Carter and consider him to be a suspect. This is a shame as the main characters could be better explored against each other in a connected case more than they were explored working the separate cases. (Come to think of it, Kirsty did not have much interaction with anyone anyways.)There is not much to say about Dan Carter's case. Everything went smoothly. The reader is able to figure out the obvious parts, but there is a tangent that very few readers would have guessed.It was nice to see Kirsty's world, but the case that she was working on was half-baked and had an unsatisfying ending. She had a few emotional moments, but seemed otherwise apathetic. How else could you be satisfied, as a policeman, letting the killer run free and avoiding justice?
Private London has a slow start, but it grew on me. Like the first book in the series, there are an excessive amount of arbitrary chapters. (One conversation spanned over two chapters despite there being no break in conversation!) Unlike the first book, there is not an overwhelming amount of characters. In the end, I found the book amusing and a very quick read.
