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The Private Patient is the fourteenth novel to feature the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh

Some men take to gun-running because they have a longing for danger and adventure

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She vanished on a family trip to the mountainous forests of Oregon

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The Ministry of Fear M. Cole The Private Patient is theFor Arthur Rowe the charity f? te was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.