Princess: A Private Novel

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Princess: A Private Novel
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First edition, cover showing Big Ben
Author James Patterson & Rees Jones
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesPrivate series
Genre Thriller novel
Publisher Grand Central Publishing
Publication date
May 15, 2018 [1]
Media typePrint (hardcover) [2]
Pages384 pp (first edition, hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-53871-444-7 (for first hardcover edition)
Preceded by The Games: A Private Novel (2016) 

Princess: A Private Novel, written by James Patterson [3] and Rees Jones, is the thirteenth book of the Private Series. Private is a private investigative agency started by Jack Morgan's father and subsequently built into a worldwide enterprise by Jack Morgan.

Plot

This book is a thriller novel set in England and Wales. The main characters are Morgan and Peter Knight, the director of Private London, a subsidiary of Private. Private and Private London have been commissioned by Princess Caroline, third in line to the British throne, to locate Sophie Edwards. Sophie, a close friend of the Princess, has disappeared. While Morgan and his people are working this case, a nemesis from the past surfaces and inflicts a painful blow to Morgan. He is determined to find his old enemy before more people are hurt.

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References

  1. This is the release date for the first hardcover edition. Other editions were released on other dates.
  2. Also released as Amazon Kindle edition, as paperback and as audiobook and CD editions.
  3. Amazon.com website, at https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Private-Novel-Hardcover-Library/dp/1538714442/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= .