“Deftly plotted…An engaging protagonist…Freed, who shared in a Pulitzer Prize for the LA Times coverage of the Rodney King riots, capably balances humor and serious themes.”
-Publishers Weekly, Feb.20, 2012
“The riveting plot, well-drawn characters, and magnificent prose are sure to make Flat Spin one of the finest debuts of 2012.”
-Bruce DeSilva, Edgar Award-winning author of Rogue Island and Cliff Walk
“David Freed’s Flat Spin is a wonderful hybrid of a classic crime novel and spy thriller. Note to readers: Keep your seatbelts fastened. It’s a hell of a ride.”
-Reed Farrell Coleman, three-time Shamus Award winner and author of Hurt Machine
“Flat Spin is a perfect take off for what I think will be a long and unique career for David Freed and his creation, Cordell Logan. They both know the turf well and I look forward to more.”
-Michael Connelly, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of “Blood Work,” “The Lincoln Lawyer,” and the Harry Bosch detective series.
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Based in sunny Rancho Bonita—“California’s Monaco” as the city’s moneyed minions like to call it—Cordell Logan is a flight instructor with dwindling savings and a shadowy past.
When his beautiful ex-wife, Savannah, informs him her husband’s been murdered in Los Angeles, Logan is quietly pleased. Savannah’s late husband, after all, was Arlo Echevarria, the man she left him for. But Echevarria was also Logan’s former comrade-in-arms in a top-secret military assassination team known as Alpha. There are no stronger loyalties than those forged in battle, and Logan realizes that he has no choice but to take action.
Relying on his small, aging airplane, the Ruptured Duck, and on the skills he honed working for the government, Logan hunts Echevarria’s killer from the West Los Angeles haunts of Russian Mafia to the glitzy Las Vegas Strip as he struggles to sort out his love-hate relationship with the temperamental Savannah.
