Yes, I enjoyed the book, and I plan to continue the series.

Absolutely anyone else, thank you.

Yes.

Oh, my. Anytime any character was read with an American accent, they sounded instead as if they had a mental disability, their words were spoken with such flat tone and slowed speech. I believe the man put marbles in his mouth in order to attempt the accent. I may try to get a job as a book reader myself if they are handing them out so readily.

Book was a formulaic - predictible. Over use of "guess one", "guess two", TA-DA got it in three.

Narrator quite possibly performed the worst "accents" on record in a book about international Olympics. His American accent was particularly dreadful - to the point of distraction.

I'm surprised at the poor reviews for this book as I thoroughly enjoyed it. Some complain about Paul Panting's British accent - - - hello, what did you expect? The setting for Private Games is the London Summer Olympics! I enjoyed and expected the accent.

Without rehashing too much of the plot, the story is set at the London Summer Olympic games, centering on the security detail and a nefarious threat to end the games. Many of the surrounding events actually took place and while fictional, the main plot is something that we expect could happen in today's world. Patterson does a great job of introducing the protagonists and the motivation for their actions. However, watch out for the surprise on the REAL reasons for one character's actions.

Many of the minor characters are not fully developed and while that would add to the enjoyable read, it does not harm the story other than the gratuitous lesbian affair. This small part of the story seems to have absolutely no place or need in the story other than if one just has to have a gay character to be politically PC. The children are especially endearing and give some depth to main character Peter Knight. However, I think Knight's character could have been better fleshed out.

One part of the ending, having nothing to do with the main story, is just fast and quick with little purpose other than feeling the Patterson realized he missed romance as an underlining theme and simply needed to add a possible love interest at the end of a thriller.

Through many parts of the book I was engaged enough that I didn't want to stop listening and so either did another mile on my walk or another couple of miles on the bike. So if nothing else, I got great exercise while listening to a very good tale.

So obviously not the same author as the first two books. Weak, unbelievable plot (arch villan who thinks he is one of the "gods"), poorly developed characters, and way too much extraneous detail.

The narration was also one of the worst I've ever had in an audio book. The narrator couldn't do an American accent at all, so Jack was completely stilted and unbelievable. Most of his british characters ended up sounding like soccer fans, and not the educated characters they were supposed to be. He was awful - shouldn't be employed again!!

James should definitely not partner with Mark Sullivan again...this book was not in the same league as every other one I've read. Don't waste your money!

I very much enjoyed the book. The plot was twisting and turning as usual but not so much as to get lost as can be the case in some books. I did find the narrator's English accent a bit hard to understand at first but once you got used to it the story was worth the listen.

Great Story good characters and the writing continues .

Keeped me wanting more.

Never but will continue to listen to more of what he has

There is more to the games than just playing in them.....

great book and can't wait to see a movie with Private....

Loved this series (3). This book was a little hard to listen to at first because the narrator's accent is British. But, once I got into the story, I didn't notice. Very entertaining. Hope there is a 4th in the series coming out soon. If you like James Patterson's detective novels, you will love this series.

A great adventure.

The young attorney.

When he had an anxiety attack and he changed his life.

n/a

Yes, good story overall

Keeps the Private saga going, different characters but Jack's still there

most characters are great, his American accent is annoying at best

The book was timely and eye opening. It showed what COULD happpen even though the twist is that the villian is so totally unexpected. James Patterson does it again.