Deep Fury
The Cordell Logan Mysteries • Book 7
by David Freed
Why You'll Love This
A man falls naked from the sky through a mobile home roof — and somehow that's the most logical thing in this mystery.
- Great if you want: aviation-flavored mysteries with a wisecracking ex-assassin protagonist
- The experience: fast, punchy, and darkly funny — moves like a prop plane at full throttle
- The writing: Freed's sardonic first-person voice is sharp, specific, and never boring
- Skip if: you haven't read earlier Logan books — backstory adds meaningful weight here
About This Book
When a man falls from the sky and crashes through a mobile home roof in the dead of night, the mystery isn't just how he died—it's everything he was hiding while he lived. For Cordell Logan, a wisecracking flight instructor with a dark past as a government assassin, the victim isn't a stranger, and that makes the investigation something far more dangerous than a puzzle to solve. David Freed builds a story where old loyalties, buried secrets, and the particular grief of losing someone you thought you knew all collide at altitude.
What distinguishes this seventh Logan novel is Freed's ear for voice. Logan's sardonic, self-aware narration keeps the pages turning even when the tension briefly eases—he's the rare protagonist who's genuinely funny without undermining the stakes. Freed's background in journalism gives the prose a clean, efficient momentum, and his knowledge of aviation lends the technical details an authenticity that grounds even the most heightened moments. Readers who've followed Logan from the beginning will find this installment both familiar and freshly charged.
