Order of David Freed Books

David Freed is an American author best known as the writer and creator of the Cordell Logan series of books. David is a lifelong writer who did work as an investigative journalist for the Los Angeles Times. He has also done screenwriting and even worked an an asset to U.S. Intelligence.

David was born in the south on an Air Force base and was the son of a cop who lived in the Rocky Mountains. While initially thinking of medical school, he soon realized that he was better suited to writing and pursued that. IN his journalism career he would report from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, and even later shared in a Pulitzer Prize. He is a licensed pilot who owns a Piper Cherokee. When not writing, Freed is a contributing editor to Air & Space Smithsonian magazine as well as an assistant professor of journalism at Colorado State University. He lives in Colorado and California with his wife and children.

Publication Order of Cordell Logan Mystery Books

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Flat Spin is the first book in the Cordell Logan series. The book follows Cordell, a flight instructor and buddhist with a shadowy past. His ex-wife comes to him for help after her husband was murdered. The husband, Arlo, and Cordell were once comrades in the military and his ex-wife thinks his death may be tied to the top secret work that they did. Logan relies on his old military skills to hunt the killer while also carrying a secret flame for his ex-wife, the one that got away.

Freed followed that book up with Fangs Out. This book has an interesting case where a man on death row, convicted of killing a Vietnam hero’s daughter, admits that he wasn’t the real murderer and that the actual killer was a U.S. Defense contractor. The pilot desperately wants to find out the truth about this and hires Cordell to investigate.