Private (Adam Hamdy) Books in Order

Adam Hamdy's stretch of the Private novels gives Jack Morgan a run of cases that feel especially tied to modern geopolitics, covert warfare, and the cost of leadership. The setup is still familiar: Jack runs a huge private investigation agency with offices around the world. But these books keep asking what happens when the danger is not just around him, but aimed straight at him and the people closest to him.

That shift matters.

It starts with Private Moscow, where the killing of an old military friend pulls Jack from the New York Stock Exchange to Russia and into a conspiracy with wider consequences. Private Rogue, also published as Private: Missing Persons, begins with a missing woman and two children. What looks like a straightforward recovery job quickly turns into a pursuit involving trained operatives, buried secrets, and links to Afghanistan that give the book extra weight for Jack.

In Private Beijing, the threat expands from one investigation to the agency itself. Offices are hit, agents die, and Jack has to steady a shaken organization while trying to work out who is coordinating the attacks. Private Rome changes the shape of the tension again by making one of Jack's own people, Matteo Ricci, the prime suspect in a priest's murder. That sends the story into Vatican politics, hidden loyalties, and the problem of trying to prove innocence when powerful institutions want a quick answer.

Then Hamdy makes the stakes even more personal. Private Monaco turns a glamorous coastal backdrop and the Monaco Grand Prix into the setting for abduction, betrayal, and a ticking-clock conspiracy after Justine is taken. Private Dublin opens with a shooting at a Hollywood premiere, leaves Justine badly wounded, and sends Jack to Ireland after a gunman, only for him to discover that the attack was not random at all.

In this run, the danger keeps getting closer to home.

That is what gives these books their shape. They still deliver chases, shootouts, and international settings, but they also track the strain on Jack as boss, partner, and friend. If you want the Private novels where the series leans hardest into globe-spanning conspiracies and personal stakes, Hamdy's sequence is a strong place to settle in.