If you like NCIS you'll most likely enjoy this book. Although it was pretty outlandish for my taste.

Audio Book Review - Ray Porter is an expert in keeping the suspense and the story flowing with ease. Mr Cordell Logan the main character is carefully created and a thoroughly expect anti-hero who has generated a life from his favourite pastime. The story is well crafted and as I mentioned expertly told leading you through a maze of twists and intrigues - including his personal life!

David Freed’s Cordell Logan series is one of my favorite audiobook series for sardonic and sarcastic humor within a mystery. Ray Porter has narrated all the books except one and he really provides a high level of story telling plus entertainment.

A flight instructor who finds himself involved in detective work with his military Alpha background has been so fun over the years.

This seventh in the series does not disappoint even with a few predictable plot points but it is more about the laughs for me!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity in exchange for an honest review.

*Deep Fury* by David Freed is a thrilling aviation mystery that might not be for the faint of heart. The intense descriptions of flying and the high-stakes situations kept me on edge, but it was too much for my comfort level with air travel. I couldn't get past chapter one—if you're afraid of flying, this book might make you reconsider! I'm giving it a 5 star, since I did enjoy the narrator and write style, just not the topic for me.

4.25 Stars 🌟

It was a pleasant surprise when I started listening to this book and realized very quickly that this was a continuation of a series that I have truly enjoyed. I guess I wasn't really paying close attention when I was sent the ARC, so I was extremely pleased to jump back into the world of Cordell Logan. This is, in fact, the seventh book in the series.

The first and possibly BEST thing about the narration is that it is narrated by Ray Porter! <i>SCORE!</i> He is and has been one of my favorite narrators and he also happens to narrate some of my absolute favorite series.

I've mentioned in a previous review ( from an earlier book in this series) that there is a lot of communication between the air traffic controllers - the tower- and our pilot Mr. Logan. Mr. Porter really shines at this type of communication. To be fair though, it felt like there was a lot less of this type of communication occurring in this book, but Mr. Porter still really shines during these conversations. It is so easy to picture yourself in the cockpit of a small airplane, talking to the tower as you are ready to take off or land. I know, I know, it's a weird thing to compliment, but it really just works for me.

This book starts out with Logan learning that his wingman from his college years at the Air Force Academy and partner in Desert Storm has been killed. And it is not in any way a normal murder. His buddy - Pete Hostetler - was either thrown out of or fell out of a flying airplane and he lands on the roof of a double wide trailer - without any clothes on.

Logan, in addition to the loss, also feels guilt because this is a man who saved his life on a couple of occasions, yet he did not keep in touch. He realizes that he really had no idea what had happened to Pete in the last years of his life.

In total Logan fashion, he decides to "look into it" and as usual, he is like a bull in a china factory. Things take off from there and in the process of his "investigation," he is dealing with the head of a major Mexican Cartel, a toy company that just may be making more than "toys" and a newly widowed wife who cannot go more than two minutes without bad mouthing the deceased Pete, accusing him of being a womanizing alcoholic - while always being in some sort of an inebriated state herself.

All of this new information just doesn't ring true to Logan because the man he remembers was a man full of honor and the kind of man who would always stand for good in the face of evil. Yes, it's been a long time, but he is having a hard time syncing up the things he is being told with the man he knew.

As usual, this book takes off at a fast and furious pace. It is full of action, drama and intrigue. All of these events are also happening at the same time that his latest relationship is not on the most solid ground and quickly crumbling.

I enjoyed the heck out of this book and am looking forward to the next book in the series - if there is going to be a next one (I certainly hope so). The character that always seems to steal the show for me is his elderly "4 times widowed" Jewish neighbor Mrs. Schmulowitz - I can not say enough about her, nor can I adequately describe her other than to say that she is a one of a kind character that shines whenever she is on the page.

Thank you to NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing - Audiobooks for the opportunity to listen to and review this ARC. The opinions above are mine and mine alone. This book is out for publication on Dec 17, 2024.

What an excellent fast paced thriller. It has a bit of everything - action, suspense, aviation, drug cartels, and even humor.

My favorite character was the landlady, Mrs. Schmulowtiz. I could read a whole book about her.

This is my first book by David Freed and I will definitely be reading the others in the Cordell Logan series.

Ray Porter is one of my favorite narrators so I was thrilled he was reading this book.

Thank you to NetGalley & Blackstone Publishing - Audiobooks for letting me read this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thanks to NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for the advanced audio book.

3.5 stars

When slightly down-on-his luck flight instructor and former government assassin Cordell Logan finds out that his former air force buddy was killed by being thrown from a plane, he stops at nothing to get to the truth of who killed his friend, even if it means tangling with a drug cartel, a drunk wife, and suspicious toy company CEO.

This was a fun read--exactly the kind of book I flew through while walking the dog and driving around. Logan is very tongue-in-cheek funny (sometimes a little over the top), but overall this was a solid mystery/thriller.

Deep Fury could easily be an action movie! It had a bit of everything — part suspenseful thriller, part high stakes flight/action, and it even had some humor and a bit of a love story!

The landlady was one of my favorite characters ever - listening to this on audio was fun. I loved her accent and how she spoke/the stories she told. Kissed JFK? No big deal. Ran a marathon? Been there, done that, might as well run for public office. Logan, the main character, was so cocky/arrogant but also likable, it was easy to picture him as some ex-military macho guy.

Despite being fast-paced (I finished it in a day)… It was a bit of a slow burn, with all the action culminating into a lackluster scene in the desert… but kudos to the rattlesnake, he’s the real MVP.