Private Berlin
(Private 5)
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4.2 • 186 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The past is a foreign country . . .
Mattie Engel is one of the rising stars at Private Berlin, and believes she's seen the worst of people as a police officer. That is until Chris, her colleague – and fiancé – is found dead, brutally murdered in an old slaughterhouse outside the city.
The slaughterhouse is filled with bodies. But just as Private begin their investigations, the building explodes, wiping out all evidence of the crimes.
Mattie soon realises that a masked killer is picking off Chris's childhood friends, one-by-one. But who is trying to bury the past?
And will Mattie become the killer's next victim?
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Readers love Private Berlin . . .
'Captures the essence of the city'
'A highly enjoyable action-packed read with clever, revealing conclusions'
'Gripping from start to finish'
'Fantastic'
'Another hit from James Patterson;
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PRAISE FOR THE PRIVATE THRILLERS
'Great action sequences ... breathtaking twists and turns' ANTHONY HOROWITZ
'An unmissable, breakneck ride' JAMES SWALLOW
'Exhilarating, high-stakes action' LESLEY KARA
'An exhilarating and totally satisfying read' NB MAGAZINE
'A breakneck fast, brutally good page-turner' DAILY MAIL
'Hits the ground running and the pace never misses a beat' DAILY EXPRESS
'Yet another fine outing from the master of thrillers' CITY A.M.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The brave efforts of the heroes alternate with the sadistic musings of the bad guy in Patterson's formulaic fifth thriller centered on the global investigations firm known as Private (after 2012's Private London), this one written with Sullivan (Rogue). Private operative Chris Schneider comes to Berlin on personal leave to confront a demon from his past, only to become its latest victim. When Schneider fails to show up for work and no one can reach him, his ex-fianc e, Mattie Engel, who's still a Private colleague, agrees that his tracking device should be activated. This leads to a grisly discovery in an abandoned slaughterhouse in a wooded area outside Berlin. The mask-wearing psycho behind Schneider's death, who calls himself the Invisible Man and revels in the pain others, shares a familiar origin story in which a warped relationship with his mother is the cause of his savagery. Readers should be prepared for some things that don't make a lot of sense (e.g., at one point Engel admires a colleague for connecting a suspect with another person who has the suspect's first name as his middle name and his middle name as his first) and the usual stock characters.
Customer Reviews
Private Berlin
Gripping all the way,
Private Berlin
It has been a while since I read a book James Paterson you can rely on as a good read but... He just cost me a few hundred pounds . I was at an expensive spa for 2 days and was going to enjoy the pool, classes that the resort had to offer instead I got locked into PRIVATE BERLIN.
It had such real characters and such detailed descriptions of places and events ,it was easy to play the whole book in my imagination as my own movie, gripping soul searching, chilling and finally the end came with closure and understanding. Such a good read.. Real charters a real story gripping .. Excellent
Private Berlin
A great story could not stop reading it.