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Randy Wayne White is the creator of Doc Ford, ex-operative turned marine biologist, who’s been called a modern day Thoreau. From his house on stilts in Dinkin’s Bay marina, Ford runs a mail order business supplying marine specimens to schools and research programs.
A veteran fishing guide and outdoorsman, Randy is not one to shy away from adventure. He has experienced dog-sledding in Alaska, has brought back refuges from Cuba, and has covered the World Cup in Australia. For many years he wrote a column for Outside Magazine, and has also written for many others. During the 1980’s under the names of Randy Stryker and Carl Ramm, he produced 18 paperback thrillers he says are best forgotten. He currently lives in Fort Myers where he writes columns for Men’s Health Magazine.
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Seventeenth in the Doc Ford series:
Deep Shadow |
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Thirty minutes into an easy beginners-level dive in a remote Florida lake, a cave collapses, trapping two of Doc Ford's friends. Seeking help on shore, Doc is greeted by two ex-cons searching for the remains of a legendary plane wreck, supposedly loaded with Cuban treasury gold. Doc races against time to save his friends and himself.
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Sixteenth in the Doc Ford series:
Dead Silence |
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Winter in New York City finds Doc Ford and his friend, British agent Sir James Montbard, attending the Explorers Club. Ford saves an attractive U.S. senator from an abduction attempt, but her companion is not so lucky. A fourteen-year-old Minnesota boy is snatched, and the kidnappers issue an ultimatum.
Ford races to Long Island and Florida in search of the boy, against a 36 hour deadline.
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Fifteenth in the Doc Ford series:
Black Widow |
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Fourteenth in the Doc Ford series:
Hunter's Moon |
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Doc Ford's adventure begins when he saves from assassination a controversial former president of the U.S. Kal Wilson is a marked man and is investigating the alleged accidental death of his wife in a plane crash. He needs Doc Ford to keep him alive until he uncovers the plot.
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| Gulf Coast Cookbook |
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Randy Wayne White's Gulf Coast Cookbook pairs more than 125 recipes with photos of the real Tarpon Bay, Sanibel Island and the most appetizing food-related passages from his essays and novels. |
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Thirteenth in the Doc Ford series:
Dark Light |
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A Category 4 hurricane has swept the west coast of Florida, covering well-known reefs and wrecks and uncovering new ones.
Doc Ford and his friends discover a cluster of mysterious objects that lead to a mysterious woman. She asks Ford to help salvage the boat, which sank without explanation in the hurricane of 1944.
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Twelfth in the Doc Ford series:
Dead of Night |
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Doc Ford's old friend Frieda Matthews asks Doc to check on her reclusive brother when she cannot reach him by telephone. Doc encounters a horrible scene that hints at an impending catastrophe in Florida. Doc races against the clock to find a solution.
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Eleventh in the Doc Ford Series:
Tampa Burn |
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In all his life, Marion "Doc" Ford has been passionately, irresponsibly in love with only one woman. Her name was Pilar, and she was married to a thuggish politico named Balserio in a country where Ford was working undercover. When Ford had to run, it was with a bounty on his head and, unknown to him then, a legacy: Pilar was pregnant. Now, many years later, out of power and consumed with the desire for revenge, Balserio has kidnapped the boy and taken him to his new home base in Florida. Ford hoped he'd left his violent past behind him long ago, but he knows he has no choice. The man has his son....
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| An American Traveler: True Tales of Adventure, Travel and Fishing |
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An American Traveler comprises more than a dozen essays by Randy Wayne White.
White has produced an eclectic mix of stories with a singular, driving theme: A "safe" sedentary life is a predacious as slow cancer.
In this book, White demonstrates that the fun, the drama, the craziness of exploration is an estraordinarily important part of the human experience. White dives with great white sharks in South Africa, but his love and concern for his two sons, traveling with him, generates powerful, subtle undertones that carry throughout and make this far more than an oridnary collection of travel-adventure stories.
White hangs in Australia with the Crocodile Hunter, writes about Peter Blake and the New Zealand sailing team, jogs Mayan ruins and battles insects in his garden. He's the lead sledder in the US toboggan championships; he explores Vietnam - and just as powerfully explores what it's like to reach middle age. |
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Tenth in the Doc Ford series:
Everglades |
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Doc Ford returns to his stilt house on Dinkin Bay to find an old friend and one-time lover waiting for him. Her real-estate developer husband has disappeared and been pronounced dead, and she's sure there is worse to follow - and she's right.
Following the trail, Ford ends up deep in the Everglades, at the gates of a community presided over by a man named Bhagwan Shiva. Shiva is big business, but that business has been a little shaky lately, and so he's come up with a scheme to enhace both his cash and his power.
Of course, there's the possibility that some people could get hurt and the Everglades itself damaged, but Shiva smells a killing. And if that sould turn out to be literally, as weel as figuratively true...well, that's just too damned bad.
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| Dead of Night |
| by Jay Vandevoort |
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The arrival of a Randy Wayne White novel is usually a sign that summer is about to begin. This year, with an earlier release date than normal (March 17), White’s twelfth novel in the Doc Ford series, Dead of Night should be no reason not to enjoy spring and get a head start on the summer season. As with his previous novels, White delivers another thriller that captures the reader from beginning to end.
With a phone call from an old friend who is unable to reach her reclusive biologist brother, Doc Ford, the protagonist of White’s novels, is drawn into a world of illegal reptile trade and importation of dangerous and “noxious” exotics, and an eco-terrorist plot that threatens to destroy the fragile Florida wetlands.
Having “retired” as an intelligence operative years earlier, Ford now runs his own company, Sanibel Biological Supply, from his stilt house at Dinkins Bay Marina on Sanibel island in Florida. In recent novels, Ford has been slowly drawn back into his former life as an operative and in Dead of Night he answers another call—this time from his old boss Hal Harrington—for a couple “assignments:” one being the above eco-terrorist threat.
Readers will not be disappointed with Dead of Night, as the old gang at Dinkins Bay Marina is back, including Doc’s sidekick Tomlinson, who continues to deliver memorable lines, such as referring to Florida’s River of Grass that begins in the outskirts of Orlando as “the real Magic Kingdom.” Not to be missed is Tomlinson’s amusing experimentation with capitalism and his “episode” with a fish.
For those who read White’s previous novel, Tampa Burn, Ford’s son Laken is back and readers will also learn if Ford will be a father with his on-again, off-again girlfriend Dewey Nye.
Normally, before sitting down with a Doc Ford novel, I crack open an ice-cold beverage and throw a fish on the grill to add to the Florida ambiance. Given my present location, the fish isn’t possible, but I still enjoyed Dead of Night very much and highly recommend it. Given that most of the book was written after White’s home was hit by Hurricane Charley last August, I thought he did an excellent job, as this was very well-written, researched, and entertaining.
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| Posted 25-04-2005 |
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