Freed’s ‘Fangs Out’ suspenseful tale

Streep to narrate Ephron ‘Heartbum’

‘Fangs Out’ (The Permanent Press), by David Freed After 10 years on California’s death row, Dorian Munz is finally about to be executed for murdering the daughter of a Vietnam war hero named Hub Walker. Does Munz have any last words?

“Funny you should ask,” he says, and then swears the young woman was actually killed by her employer, a military contractor named Greg Castle, to keep her from exposing what she knew about him defrauding the US government.

The California press has a field day with the accusation, but Hub doesn’t believe a word of it because Castle is one of his best friends.

Hub offers Cordell Logan, a former military black ops assassin now scraping out a living as a civil flight instructor, $10,000 to discredit Munz’s claim and restore his friend’s reputation.

Freed, an experienced pilot, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a military affairs expert with an active security clearance, spins his suspenseful plot with the same muscular prose, hard-boiled attitude and flashes of wry humor that made the first Logan Cordell novel a critical success.

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NEW YORK: Meryl Streep’s voice will be heard on a special project this summer: the first audiobook edition of the late Nora Ephron’s “Heartburn.”

Random House Audio announced Friday that Streep will narrate Ephron’s autobiographical novel based on her marriage to journalist

Carl Bernstein, first published in 1983. The Oscar-winning actress starred in the film version, which came out three years later. (AP)