Former US Marine Jack Morgan runs Private a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force & maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men & women on the planet come to Jack daily
- & his staff of investigators use the worlds most advanced forensic tools to make & break their cases. In L.A. Jack is already deep into the investigation of a multimillion-dollar gambling scandal & the unsolved slayings of eighteen schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friends wife Jacks former lover has been killed. It nearly pushes him over the edge. Instead Jack pushes back & devotes all of Privates resources to tracking down her killer. & Jack doesnt have to play by the rules.
...

Jack Morgan is a war hero. Returning home from Afghanistan after being wounded Jack is called into California State Prison to visit his father Tom who is serving a life sentence for extortion & murder. Before being incarcerated Tom ran a private investigation firm called Private. Tom wants Jack to re-start the company to make it great again & gives him access to a $15 million dollar account in the Cayman Islands to do it with. Five years later & Jack has set up offices spanning the globe. Privates services are much sought-after & Jack has clients ranging from movie stars to politicians. Jack is keen to keep the business legal & not fall into the same traps as his father. But when the mob come calling they are not easy to refuse. On a rare night off accompanying a client to the Golden Globe awards Jack receives a phone call from school friend Abbie Cushman. Abbies wife has been murdered & he desperately needs Jacks help. The murder is brutal & with no apparent motive; fingers begin pointing towards Abbie. Jack is certain that Abbie didnt kill his wife but he will have to work night & day to prove it. Meanwhile Jacks second-in-command at Private Justine Smith is helping the L.A.P.D. in a serial killer investigation. Over the past two years twelve school girls from the same area in L.A. have been murdered. The killings are highly professional & so far the Police have no leads whatsoever. Justine has been called in to make use of her experience & Privates resources. A breakthrough is desperately needed because these killings show no signs of stopping. ...

The good the bad & the beautiful... When Reed Brennan arrives at Easton Academy she discovers that everyone is more sophisticated more gorgeous & a whole lot wealthier than she is. She feels like an outsider looking in.. .until she meets the Billings Girls the most beautiful intelligent & powerful girls on campus. Reed vows to do whatever it takes to be accepted into their inner circle. But once shes in she discovers theres more to the Girls closets than designer clothes
- theyre hiding skeletons too.. .and secrets which must be kept PRIVATE. Whatever the cost
...

Sam the ugly duckling who grew into a swan. Now beautiful & wealthy with a glittering career no one can understand why shes still on her own. When she meets a handsome stranger on holiday things finally seem to be falling into place... Meaghan a true survivor. The teenage runaway who worked her way off the streets she was swept off her feet by a young army officer to live on the other side of the world finally escaping the family she loathed... Dani the beautiful misfit desperately looking for daddy in all the wrong places & finding instead a man who will teach her everything that is wrong & corrupt about love. & Abby the model wife everything her husband & family could want & more but never being herself. Until a dark secret threatens to pull her well-ordered life apart. ...

A history lesson they'll never forget & neither will you. Mattie Engel is one of the rising stars at Private Berlin & believes she's seen the worst of people in her previous life with the Berlin police force. That is until Chris her colleague
- & until recently her fiance
- 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 & nearly killing Mattie & her team. Mattie soon realises that a masked killer is picking off Chris's childhood friends one by one & destroying the trail. But who wants the past buried so badly? What is the truth about that slaughterhouse? & will Mattie become the killer's next victim?

...

How Sweden got sexy? This is a graphic exploration of the origin of hardcore. Long long ago in the year 1965 there was no explicit pornography. There was the odd grainy stag film the occasional French postcard the rare Cuban chapbook or homemade Polaroid but the glossy professional color pornography ubiquitous to modern society did not exist. The man who changed all that was Berth Milton of Stockholm with his audacious little digest Private". He & " Private" were directly responsible for Swedish Parliaments decision to treat sexually explicit materials as protected free speech leading to the abolition of obscenity laws over most of northern Europe. With its smiling exuberantly uninhibited models " Private" created a fantasy of Sweden as the most liberated country on earth a sexual wonderland that enchanted men around the globe. Publisher Milton was the magazines sole photographer so the " Private" paradise was very much his personal dream. Genius & tyrant he insisted on only the best for his magazine rising in the 1970s to become the Hugh Hefner of Hardcore. This five volume 960-page mini-boxed set presents the best of " Private" from 1970 to 1979. Each 192-page book features seven to 10 of the best photo sets arranged in chronological order produced from the original color transparencies. Also included are photos never seen in the magazine plus behind-the-scenes photos of Milton at work & all of the magazine covers. Vintage art ads & editorials complete this fascinating look at the birth of pornography & the infamous Swedish Sin." ...

The chauffeur stood still for a moment then moved his broad hand up towards the button on his tight uniform jacket. His voice was low & hypnotic. 'I can give you anything you want Francesca ' he whispered. ' And I think I know what you want.' When Francesca Leeman is invited to catalogue a private collection of priceless erotica she finds her new acquaintances cultured fascinating
- & intense. She is soon drawn to their intoxicating way of life & their voyeuristic games of seduction... Black Lace Classics
- our best erotic fiction ever from our leading authors.

...

This is an engrossing thriller about relationships with bar girls by a bestselling crime author. It is set in Thailand in 1996 the year of the Rat. Pete a young travel writer wanders into a Bangkok go-go bar & meets the love of his life. Joy is the girl of his dreams: young stunningly pretty & one of the Zombie Bar's top earning pole dancers. What follows is a roller-coaster ride of sex drugs & deception as Pete discovers that his own very private dancer is not all that she claims to be & that far from being the girl of his dreams Joy is his own personal nightmare. ...

P.I. Craig Gisto head of the latest branch of Private is enjoying the glamorous launch party with his new team when their celebrations are interrupted by the bloodied arrival of a boy with his eyes gouged out. The boy is the kidnapped son of one of Australia's richest men
- but investigating his death isn't their only pressing case. The rock star Micky Stevens is convinced someone's trying to kill him & believes Private are the only ones who can help. As if that wasn't enough someone is murdering the wealthy wives of the Eastern Suburbs in the most brutal way imaginable. & if they don't catch the killer soon the next victim could be someone close to Private.
...

Steve Coll's Private Empire" is winner of the FT/ Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. In this prize-winning book the author of " Ghost Wars" & " The Bin Ladens" investigates the notoriously mysterious Exxon Mobil Corporation & the secrets of the oil industry. In many of the nations where it operates Exxon Mobil has a greater sway than that of the US embassy its annual revenues are larger than the total economic activity in most countries & in Washington it spends more on lobbying than any other corporation. Yet despite its outsized influence it is to outsiders a black box. " Private Empire" begins with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 & closes with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Steve Coll's narrative spans the globe taking readers to Moscow impoverished African capitals Indonesia & elsewhere as Exxon Mobil carries out its activities against a backdrop of blackmail threats kidnapping civil wars & high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin. In the US Coll goes inside Exxon Mobil's ruthless Washington lobbying offices & its corporate headquarters in Irving Texas where top executives oversee a bizarre corporate culture of discipline & secrecy. " Private Empire" is the masterful result of Steve Coll's indefatigable reporting from the halls of Congress to the oil-laden swamps of the Niger Delta; previously classified U.S. documents; heretofore unexamined court records; & many other sources." ...