Private London (A Private Novel, 1)

This book was great, I had a hard time putting it down. I love James Patterson books and have read so many of them. This is a great series, I do not know how I missed it, but I sure am glad I have found it. His books are so intriging and always keep your attention. I am always being told that I block out everyone when I read and I say when the book is that great deal with it.

I usually love Patterson and would say he's easily one of my favorite authors. However, this book was a little too "British" for my tastes. I'm probably over-sensative to it right now because I'm reading a book to my son that has a lot of British words in it that I have to explain to an 8 year old. But I found it very distracting and it made the book harder to get into for me. Other than that tho, it was great. Really liked the plot and the twists.

New series New Characters, Great Storyline, On my Way To The Next Story, I Hope it's Just as Good As last Two

Patterson has developed a good literary vehicle with the Private series to assure sales in that he can vary the locale and therefore the protagonists based on which international office this particular Private adventure will be taking place in. The problem Paterson is running into is the inconsistency of style caused by the multiple co-authors used in the series along with a high frequency of publication. That said, our heroes are enjoyable in the sense that they do have the advantage of solving crimes without having to be bound by local laws (they're private detectives not cops and somehow get away with a number of 'shortcuts'). This adds pace and unfortunately for our society some satisfaction to some of these stories. Private London was an "OK" read, but it was extremely predictable with the usual bad guys. Al Qaeda are not nice people. Israel and the rest of the Middle East don't see eye to eye. Kidnapping is evil. OK. I get that. Enough already. Find another vehicle for the antagonists. I think that the best of the Private series were "Private" and "Private #1 Suspect". They were both written with Maxine Paetro, co-author with Patterson of the famed Women's Murder Club books. There just seemed to be more substance and less filler in those two entries. Next up in January is Private Berlin...this one with Mark Sullivan who co-authored Private Games. Patterson is churning these out much too fast...but that is what happens with many franchise authors. Makes you feel that e-books have become the new paperbacks...just change the titles and characters names and let 'em rip. I think I'll wait for the reviews on Private Berlin before ordering it or better yet, look for more substantive authors.

I like this semi new series. The short chapters probably keep me reading more. I did get a little confused once with this one. They had two different stories going on at the same time. My confusion was with the different characters. It all worked out in the end. However, I did feel for the "sub" story, the book was getting to long, so they just jumped to the end. The ending didn't work for me. However, all together this was a good book.

I would like to give this book 10 stars!!!! This series is getting better each book, Jack Morgan has the reach all over the world. The team he has in London is really unique, the women have it going on. They really know their stuff, specially Suzy Malone an ex-police, Kristy Webb (Dan Carter ex-wife) detective inspector, Dr. Wendy Lee Dan Carter is the head of the London office with Sam Riddel second in charge ( right-hand man). Dan got an assignment to protect Hannah Shapiro because she had been kidnapped before because of her father the scientist working on some sort of detecting machine that is bad in the wrong hands, she and her mother were taken and the mother didn't make it and the ransom was not paid and Jack went to find her. Now Dan has the pleasure to watch her so he sent his goddaughter to keep a close tab on her by befriending her at the same college (Chloe Smith Dan's captain in the Royal Military police that saved his life and promised to care for his daughter because he got shot and died in his arms). And then Hannah got kidnapped again, a man in a car got hit by a train and died and his wedding ring finger got cut off in the hospital while he just got his heart taken for a transplant that other people were getting their finger cut off also. Stuff hit the fan at once and Jack couldn't come so he sent his right-hand man Del Rio (he is bad to the bone) . Then you have badass women on the bad side that arranged the kidnapping of Hannah and it turned bad quick. I don't want to tell you all of this book you won't have anything to look forward to. You got to read this WOW!!!! YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!!!! Especially a James Patterson fan.

I truly have enjoyed all the Private novels by James Patterson. I love books on CD, as I work from home, so after work, I got to the lake, and listen to my books as I watch the beauty around me. I suggest all his books to anyone. The man can write, and takes you right in to the action!

Just finished this. Good story; interesting characters. But I get tired of characters being described in their entirety (including weight and/or age) every time the first come into the story. I've read other books that did the job of describing much more subtly or humorously (ie, Simeon Grist). Also, I do like that in this book, once someone is introduced as Detective Investigator, there after they are referred to as DI. I think it was in Black Flagged that the writer continuously referred to people by their work titles and organization affiliation (ie, Under Director of Operations Smith). The titles didn't help Also, since this is one of the many books written by Patterson in conjunction with someone else, I was always trying to figure out what part Patterson played in writing this (and other Private) book(s).

One nore amazing thriller. I love it! It's one of the best of private series. I won't wait for another issue

I love James Patterson books... I like the private series cause I get to "visit other places" they're a fun read....

Good second book kept you involved all way through good characters well written individuals entertaining storyline fast paced good light reading

I very much enjoyed this novel. It was fast paced and held my attention throughout. I'm looking forward to the next book!

Privat London ist wieder ein spannendes Buch von James Patterson. Ich staune immer, dass er so viel Ideen hat - ohne sich zu wiederholen.