Flat Spin
Cordell Logan is a literate, sardonic flight instructor and aspiring Buddhist with dwindling savings and a shadowy past. When his beautiful ex-wife, Savannah, shows up to tell him that her husband, Arlo, has been murdered, Logan is quietly pleased. Logan and Arlo Echevarria were once comrades-in-arms assigned to a top-secret military assassination team known as “Alpha,” and Savannah suspects Echevarria’s death is related to his government work—but the LAPD can find no record of Echevarria ever having toiled for Uncle Sam. Soon Logan takes up the hunt for Echevarria’s killer. His trail leads from the glitzy Las Vegas Strip to the most dangerous ghettos of inner-city Oakland, from darkened Russian mafia haunts in West Los Angeles to the deserts of Arizona. But it is Logan’s love-hate relationship with Savannah that threatens to consume him.
