NOVEL WITH JAMES PATTERSON

AUSTRALIA BEAUTIFUL ONE DAY LETHAL THE NEXT.

With the best detectives in the business, cutting-edge technology and offices around the globe, there is no investigation company quite like PRIVATE.

Now, at a glittering launch party overlooking the iconic Opera House, PRIVATE SYDNEY throws open its doors…

Craig Gisto and his newly formed team have barely raised their glasses, however when a young Asian man, blood-soaked and bullet-ridden, staggers into the party, and what looks like a botched kidnapping turns out to be a whole lot more.

Within days the agency’s case load is full, from a missing businessman whose latest scheme was a step too far, to rock star terrified he’s next in line for the infamous ‘Club 27’.

But it’s a horrific murder in the wealthy Eastern Suburbs and the desperate search for a motive that stretches the team to the limit. Stacey Friel, friend of the Deputy Commissioner of NSW Police, isn’t the killer’s first victim – and as the bodies mount up she’s clearly not the last…