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Written by J. F. Freedman - Audio book performed by Gregory Harrison - Abridged Fiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Time Warner Audiobooks (August 2001)

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From New York Times bestselling author J. F. Freedman comes his richest, most enthralling novel yet—a multileveled work of topflight suspense that crackles with wit, tension, and insight into the darkest impulses of the human mind.

Maverick risk-taker and onetime star professor Fritz Tullis has been exiled from academia after a passionate affair with the wrong man's wife. When he retreats to his family's estate in southern Maryland, he refurbishes a run-down sharecropper's shack on the edge of a swamp and spends his time musing, fishing, and photographing the area's abundant bird life. Most important, he vows to never again get involved with events he can't control.

While photographing birds at dawn, he sights a plane with his telephoto lens as it touches down on an airstrip across the bay. It's an open secret that this area, with its multitude of hidden waterways, is becoming a hub for illegal arms and drug trafficking.

Three people emerge from the plane. As Fritz watches, two of them start arguing. Suddenly, without warning, one shoots the other. The killer and his accomplice then throw the body into the plane and take off. Fritz learns that the airstrip belongs to a wealthy and elusive man, an assistant secretary of state with a long history of connections to the CIA. A few days later, he discovers that the victim, whose body turns up a hundred miles from the murder site, was a high-ranking foreign diplomat. Before he knows it, and against his better judgment, Fritz is digging for the truth—and, complicating his life even further, becomes romantically entangled with an attractive Harvard ornithologist who's discovered his private sanctuary.

Fritz is about to learn how dangerous "being involved" can be. For as his quiet life becomes more complex, people—including some who are near and dear—start to die. And as he adds these possible murders to the one he personally witnessed, Fritz senses that he himself is being scrutinized through a telescopic lens, and that someone, somewhere, is plotting his death.

Fast-paced and suspenseful, rich in atmosphere and character, Bird's-Eye View will hold you captive line after brilliantly crafted line.

About the Author: J. F. FREEDMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of Above the Law, The Disappearance, Key Witness, House of Smoke, Obstacle Course, and Against the Wind. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.