Excerpt from The Three-Nine Line by David Freed, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

"I know this guy," the cop with the flashlight said. "I read about him in the paper. They called him 'Mr. Wonderful.' "

His partner exhaled smoke through his nose like a dragon. "Who called him that?"

"The Americans did. Their pilots. The ones we shot down during the war."

"Why would they call him Mr. Wonderful?"

The taller cop clicked off his flashlight and sighed, envisioning all of the work that lay ahead.

"Because he wasn't."

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