Private is the first installment in the Jack Morgan series by Maxine Paetro and James Patterson. Jack is a reincarnated Private of an investigation firm that was started by his own father. Shortly before his death at the local area prison, he provided all the necessary resources that Jack needed to build the firm into a much bigger and outstanding company that has branches all over the world. In this book, Jack Morgan decides to place his focus on several cases. One of these cases, is a big NFL gambling scandal which Jack�s uncle wants him to investigate. There is an organised crime behind the scandal. The following case entails the tracking down of criminals who were involved in the murder of eighteen school girls.