01716cam a2200265 4500 122640127 TxAuBib 20121217120000.0 120525s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781455528158 hardcover 1455528153 hardcover TxAuBib Patterson, James. Private London / James Patterson and Mark Pearson. New York : Little Brown & Co./Grand Central Pub., 2012. x, 373 p. ; 24 cm. 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 drawn on the whole resources of Private International in a desperate race against the odds. But the clock is ticking. 20121217. Private investigators Fiction. Private security services Fiction. Young women Crimes against Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction.