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Private Oz (Other Private Offices)
by
James Patterson (Goodreads Author),
Michael White (Goodreads Author)
James Patterson's bestselling Private series sees the world's most exclusive detective agency open a new office - in Australia!
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 throws open its doors...more
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 throws open its doors...more
Paperback, 338 pages
Published
October 1st 2012
(first published September 26th 2012)
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Private Oz is the fourth novel in the Private series by James Patterson and is co-written by Michael White. Soon after Jack Morgan’s 2nd in charge, Justine Smith arrives in Sydney for the grand opening of Private Sydney, a horribly mutilated Asian man stumbles into Private’s party and dies of gunshot wounds. Ho Meng, the man’s father, engages Private to investigate as he doesn’t trust the Police: Private Sydney’s first case. But soon, Private Sydney’s boss Craig Gisto, has more to investigate: a...more
Is there that one author who know matter how many books they release , who they release them with and what genre they may be in - you just have to read and get your hands on them . Growing up as a child it was Jacqueline Wilson but as I got older to College age , I started to read alot of James Patterson's novels and fell in love with his books and from then on I have read and will continue until one day the need might stop as it did with Jacqueline Wilson and then I will discover another author...more
Please Mr. Patterson. STOP IT.
For the first time ever, I read other reviews to check that I wasn't being ridiculous. BUT if you are using a location as your ONLY new angle on the same old, same old please try get the location right. As many of my fellow Aussies have commented - seventy degrees in Sydney is just a very embarrassing (for you and your editor) editing issue. Today was a record breaking 44 degrees in Sydney - because we use Celsius. And cell phones, and kilometres, and Australian Ido...more
For the first time ever, I read other reviews to check that I wasn't being ridiculous. BUT if you are using a location as your ONLY new angle on the same old, same old please try get the location right. As many of my fellow Aussies have commented - seventy degrees in Sydney is just a very embarrassing (for you and your editor) editing issue. Today was a record breaking 44 degrees in Sydney - because we use Celsius. And cell phones, and kilometres, and Australian Ido...more
Whenever I finish a James Patterson novel I am left with one of two things: a sense of relief that the book is over, or enjoyment at having finished a great book. There is no in between for me with this author, I either hate his books or I enjoy them. And I did quite enjoy this despite its many flaws. For a start the book is meant to be set in Australia but, apart from the name dropping of places and buildings in Sydney this book was very American. There was no local dialect, and not once did I...more
I'll start off by saying that this book was given to me as a present and although I have read similar books this isn't one that I would have bought myself.
This is the first of the Private series of books that I have read; you don't need to have read any of the previous ones to read this one although a couple of characters from prior books do get a mention here and there.
Living in Sydney it was a bit of a Novelty at first to read a book set in Sydney but after a while it felt like the Author was...more
This is the first of the Private series of books that I have read; you don't need to have read any of the previous ones to read this one although a couple of characters from prior books do get a mention here and there.
Living in Sydney it was a bit of a Novelty at first to read a book set in Sydney but after a while it felt like the Author was...more
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Jan 02, 2013
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Have loved the previous Private books but found this one a little weird.
More than likely because I am an Aussie and this book was written from the supposed perspective of the guy running Private Oz, who is supposed to be Australian.
Unfortunately the only Aussie thing about this book is the liberal references to Sydney suburbs...none of the language is Australian and I found terms like "sidewalk", "cell phone" and references to the temperature being in Fahrenheit and project housing to be quite...more
More than likely because I am an Aussie and this book was written from the supposed perspective of the guy running Private Oz, who is supposed to be Australian.
Unfortunately the only Aussie thing about this book is the liberal references to Sydney suburbs...none of the language is Australian and I found terms like "sidewalk", "cell phone" and references to the temperature being in Fahrenheit and project housing to be quite...more
This is a really ordinary book, paper thin plot with next to no suspense, two dimensional characters, plus a weird obsession with people vomiting.
It looks too like the Australian research consisted of Google Maps to get some suburbs and road names. As a note to the author: in Australia we speak in Celsius, kilometres and kilograms! We don't use cells, just mobile phones .. the list could choose on! Mind you, the lack of localisation meant we were spared the stereotypes normally put on Australia...more
It looks too like the Australian research consisted of Google Maps to get some suburbs and road names. As a note to the author: in Australia we speak in Celsius, kilometres and kilograms! We don't use cells, just mobile phones .. the list could choose on! Mind you, the lack of localisation meant we were spared the stereotypes normally put on Australia...more
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I couldn't finish this book. It is poorly written, edited and the plot was awful. I think what they are doing with this franchise is setting a book in a particular city and hoping to get readers because of the familiar nature of the setting. In this book there were a number of anomalies concerning expressions not used in Australia while it pretended to be Australian in its tone.
I can't believe it! After Merry Christmas Alex Cross I thought it could not get any worse. Private is just a collection of three short stories with very week plots and little action. I could not believe it when Cal gets into an accident with his Porsche convertible with the top down, it ends up on the tarmac on the drivers side, Cal has to climb out the window on the passenger side. Dah!
I read Private London right before picking up this book. I was a little hesitant because London was not of my favorites from Patterson. I enjoyed this one much more than that one. Although, in Oz, it sometimes felt like the characters were a bit more on the amateur side. And that could be because it was the first week opening for Private Oz. I enjoyed it, but still felt more could have been done to make us root for Private Oz.
I normally love James Patterson's books, they are easy to read and have a good flow. But I struggled a bit with this one. There were simply too many stories! Private has opened in Australia, and it almost seems like he tried to put as many stories as he could into the book to show off the new office. I simply couldn't keep up with all the different cases and people. The stories are good in themselves, but it was too much.
Would have been nice if this was more "straylian". I think these books are just becoming too "maccas" for my liking. Bring back the corner shop JP!
I was rather disappointed with this novel, I have always loved James's novels but this didn't grip me, I was able to put it down and just want to hurry up and finish it. Not because I enjoyed it, but because I was over reading it.
This was not one of favourites from this author....if your book is set in Australia, speak australian lingo and terms.
If you are setting a book in australia and co writing with an australian-for good sakes use the correct terminology!
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this book was OK...not great. There were a couple of inconsistencies , but overall it was a quick read.
That's a very good private......hope to get the next one soon.
quick read...Typical James Paterson ....Good but not his best.
Not his best novel. Too many sub plots...it feels like it has been written for a TV series ...
A quick easy read, with Sydney as the background. Good fun
Jan 13, 2013
Lydia Brown
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Great story, I read it in one day, could not stop!!!!
Nice quick read
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Loved keeping up with the different scenarios. Love James patterson
Ok I am starting to think James Patterson is chruning novels out at an alarming rate, most pretty trivial
Not his best Private book.
was not the best James Patterson book I have ever read, hope that he will do better with the next Private book he brings out....
This was not one of the best Patterson books I've ever read... It was a bit boring and drawn out, and there were numerous characters, making the book hard to follow. Also, I concur with some of my fellow goodreaders - several of the references in the book were clearly not Australian (ie Fahrenheit vs Celsius).
Okay. Not one of his best.
Jan 05, 2013
Jim Alexander
marked it as to-read
This book does not exist under that name. It probably has been re-titled as "Private Down Under".
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The subject of a Time magazine feature called, "The Man Who Can't Miss," James Patterson is the bestselling author of the past year, bar none, with more than 16 million books sold in North America alone. In 2007, one of every fifteen hardcover fiction books sold was a Patterson title. In the past three years, James has sold more books than any other author (according...more
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The subject of a Time magazine feature called, "The Man Who Can't Miss," James Patterson is the bestselling author of the past year, bar none, with more than 16 million books sold in North America alone. In 2007, one of every fifteen hardcover fiction books sold was a Patterson title. In the past three years, James has sold more books than any other author (according...more
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