Patterson’s Private
Paris opens with a man named Epée defacing a Mosque.
Epee is a graffiti artist, and his name means Sword. He’s
agenda is to complete 50 tags (AB-16). We witness the first
two in the intro. Meanwhile, Jack and his friend, Louis, are
discussing Parisians, and their need to be rude. Louis is
retired from La Crim, an elite investigative force. He now
heads Jack’s Private Paris office. During their break,
Sherman Wilkerson, (Private L.A.) calls Louis about
his daughter. Louis wants to hire Private Paris to protect
his daughter, Kim. She’s in her thirties and missing
in Paris.
Louis and Jack get to work and actually find Kim. The problem
is, they can’t keep her. Just when Jack thinks he’s
convinced her to go home, she disappears. Whether it’s
her fear of the drug dealers or the strange need to get back
to the eccentric group of people she’s running with
is what keeps the audio playing. The job of hunting Kim down,
again, leads Louis and Jack into the Paris nightlife, where
they meet up with some twisted characters. I had the urge
to clean my ears out with soap after listening to certain
sections. The second thread in the storyline has to do with
the deaths of Paris elites, and this is where the tag AB-16
and Epee come into play. The co-authors do well in tying the
threads together.
Patterson and Sullivan’s goal is to entertain readers/listeners,
and that’s just what they do. Once the action starts,
it doesn’t let up -- fast cars, explosions, snappy dialogue,
sex, murder, and mayhem. Patterson fills the storyline line
with his well-known mini cliff hangers as well as the legendary
French nightlife gone mad. Readers/listeners will not be disappointed.
Fair-warning, there are sections of this storyline that are
beyond X-rated.
Actors Jay Snyder, Dion Graham, and Jean Brassard narrate
the audio version. You will see as the scenes move and the
dialogue flows, that these gentlemen are an audiobook crew
to be reckoned with; they match each other in every scene.
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