Private
Former Marine and CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father's renowned security and detective business—along with a case load that tests him to the breaking point. Getting to the bottom of an NFL gambling scandal and an unsolved LAPD investigation into 18 school girl slayings would be enough. On...
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Former Marine and CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father's renowned security and detective business—along with a case load that tests him to the breaking point. Getting to the bottom of an NFL gambling scandal and an unsolved LAPD investigation into 18 school girl slayings would be enough. On top of all that, Morgan takes on solving the horrific murder of his best friend's wife.As Morgan fights the urge to exact brutal revenge on that killer, he has to navigate a workplace imbroglio that could blow the roof off his elite agency. And it's an especially explosive situation . . . because the love affair is his own.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780316102032 (0316102032)
Publish date: June 28th 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
Series: Jack Morgan (#1)
Much action. I enjoyed this book in audio. The story ran in several different directions and a couple of spots and conclusions, I thought a little too pat. All in all it was a good listen, but there could have been a little more background, really 124 Chapters in a 7 hour listen along with musical i...
Finished Private by James Patterson. I liked it very much and will be starting the next book in the series very shortly.
Jack and Justine, our main characters, work at Private, a private investigation company which gained its’ success through Jack’s unsavory father. There are three cases in this novel. Justine is working on the case of the missing school girls; school girls who are tricked into their abductions and mu...
This book was a great read it was interesting and the private investigation firm is something I don't end up reading much of in this genre. At the beginning of this book when they were explaining their lab set up I was concerned this was going to be like an episode of Bones or CSI but I was pleasant...
As others have pointed out this is neither the best nor worst book that I have read by the author, would have rated it higher if story had stuck to one plot point instead of being split into many. Also have to say that Jack Morgan is an ass, albeit a smart, clever and charming one.The series has pot...