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Informationen zum Autor JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 375 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades - the Alex Cross! Women's Murder Club! Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader! he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School! I Funny! Treasure Hunters! House of Robots! Confessions! and Maximum Ride series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. Klappentext A hard-hitting thriller set in the London office of the world's most exclusive detective agency. Dan Carter is the head of the London office of Private! the world's largest and most technologically advanced investigation agency. His top case is to protect Hannah Shapiro! the daughter of one of Private's wealthiest and most valuable clients. Hannah was kidnapped when she was thirteen years old. She survived. Her mother didn't. Now a university student! Carter's job is to protect her. But when the unthinkable happens and she is kidnapped again! Carter has to use all his resources to investigate. Zusammenfassung 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! ...
