The Three-nine Line

Publisher Marketing: More than forty years after their release from the notorious Hanoi Hilton, three American prisoners of war return to Vietnam to make peace with their most brutal former captor, a guard whom they ve dubbed Mr. Wonderful. The US State Department hopes reconciliation will help cement a major trade agreement between Washington and the Vietnamese. But when Mr. Wonderful is found murdered, the three ex-POWs are accused of the crime and the multi-billion-dollar deal threatens to unravel. Enter pilot, still-aspiring Buddhist, and former military assassin Cordell Logan. Working with a newly formed covert intelligence unit that answers directly to the White House, Logan is dispatched to Hanoi to identify the real killer as the trade agreement threatens to implode. What he soon uncovers proves to be a vexing and increasingly dangerous mystery. Who really killed the guard and why? Unlocking the answers will test every ounce of Logan s ingenuity and resolve, while risking his life as never before. Like its three predecessors in the Cordell Logan mystery series "Flat Spin," "Fangs Out," and "Voodoo Ridge," "The Three-Nine Line "is a classic, pulse-pounding page-turner. Legions of loyal readers and critics alike have hailed the humor and full-throttle pacing. "The Three-Nine Line "may well be the best yet." Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/08/2015 (EAN 9781579623999, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2015 pg. 39 (EAN 9781579623999, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Freed, David David Freed was a specialist in both law enforcement and military affairs during an eighteen-year reporting career, including a stint reporting on Operation Desert Storm from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq. As an investigative journalist for the "Los Angeles Times", he shared in a Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper s coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. After leaving the" Times", he worked as an investigator and associate field producer for the Los Angeles bureau of CBS News, helping cover the O. J. Simpson murder case. In 1995 he sold his first feature-length screenplay, the action-thriller "Stealth", to Twentieth Century Fox. He is also an instrument-rated private pilot and airplane owner who holds an active, top secret security clearance from the US Department of Defense.