Private Royals by James PattersonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Jacket Blurb: James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.
Jack Morgan is visiting Peter Knight and the team in the London branch of his investigation agency, Private.
At a cocktail party the night before the Trooping the Colour parade for the Queen’s 90th birthday, Jack receives a phone call from the Duke of Aldershot saying that his daughter, Abbie, has been kidnapped. He needs Private on the case – one word to the police and Abbie will be killed.
Jack will have to find Abbie before 11:00 a.m. the next morning, or the kidnapping will turn to murder.
Read this as an audio book.
This is definitely a short, faced paced book - all of three disks.
In a nutshell, Morgan is back in London to visit Peter and perhaps catch some of the Queen's Birthday celebrations. When Peter receives a call that the Duke of Aldershot's daughter has been kidnapped and her body guard is killed, everything goes pear-shaped for Private.
This read a bit like fan fiction. I would have liked to have seen a bit more to the plot because there were some leaps the characters were taking that left me going "Huh?". Granted, at three disks (roughly 125 pages) I know I shouldn't expect a lot, but it would have helped.
Plot is pretty basic and you know who's the antagonist almost right from the start. Which had me rolling my eyes a bit when Morgan is lamenting, "We've been deceived!"
Um...no. You never looked for the body.
I did enjoy the dual narrators so characters and accents stayed true. That can make a big difference when a book is being listened to.
In a nutshell, this was perfect for traveling, light on substance and big on entertainment. Not the best written in the Private series, but fun to revisit previous characters and (hopefully) be introduced to some new ones. Recommended if you've been reading the Private series.
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