Randy Wayne White. Putnam, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15849-0
In this disappointing thriller, bestseller White (Chasing Midnight and 18 other Doc Ford novels) introduces Hannah Smith, the fourth in a line of women of the same name, all denizens of Florida’s Gulf Coast. When a wealthy client of Hannah’s fishing-
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Randy Wayne White, Author Lyons and Burford Publishers $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55821-118-6
The '60s new journalism is now producing a second generation of ``gonzo'' travel writers, postmodern reporters and skewed naturalists: White is all three in this collection of 23 short pieces, some of which have appeared in Playboy , Southern Living
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Randy Wayne White, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-312-06993-3
Vivid descriptions of sportfishing and marine life off Florida's Sanibel Islands mix gratifyingly with the give-and-take of close-knit friends in the latest Marion ``Doc'' Ford tale (following Sanibel Flats ). When the body of marina owner Marvin...
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Randy Wayne White, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-312-09866-7
In the third Doc Ford adventure, White again seamlessly splices an offbeat west coast of Florida locale with even more offbeat inhabitants. Principal among them is Doc Ford, who operates a small biological-supply business from a lab in his stilt-supp
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Randy Wayne White, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-399-14242-0
Following the south Florida eco-suspense of Captiva (1996), White continues to throw plausability happily, energetically, to the winds. His swashbuckling modern-day Thoreau, narrator Doc Ford, evades death and keeps an appointment with destiny when...
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Randy Wayne White, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-399-14372-4
An awkward plot mars the latest entry (after North of Havana, 1997) in White's widely appealing Gulf coast of Florida series starring Doc Ford, marine biologist, former spook and reluctant detective. In the first chapter, Ford finds the body of...
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Randy Wayne White, Author Lyons Press $22.95 (236p) ISBN 978-1-55821-904-5
For exciting adventures in feral pig-hunting, salt-water fly-fishing or crocodile poaching, it's hard to imagine a better guide than White. In these stories, originally published in different forms in Outside magazine, White (Batfishing in the...
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Randy Wayne White, Putnam, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15705-9
In White's intelligent, fast-paced 18th Doc Ford thriller (after Deep Shadow), Doc's hipster friend, Tomlinson, persuades Doc to help an extraordinary 13-year-old girl, Tula Choimha, recently arrived at a Florida trailer park from Guatemala. Tula,...
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Randy Wayne White. Bantam, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15831-5
Technology buffs will enjoy the cool gadgets in bestseller White’s 19th Doc Ford novel (after 2011’s Night Vision), but those looking for emotional depth should look elsewhere. Ford, a marine biologist and sometime investigator, infiltrates a...
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Randy Wayne White, Author Putnam Adult $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-14620-6
Of all the writers currently exploiting the Florida mayhem boom, only White can claim to have created a series hero, marine biologist Marion ""Doc"" Ford, to match Hemingway's memorable outdoorsmen and John D. MacDonald's much-missed Travis McGee....
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Randy Wayne White. Putnam, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-15812-4
The enduring puzzle of Flight 19—five Navy torpedo bombers that disappeared on a training flight on December 5, 1945, off the Florida coast—propels bestseller White’s captivating 20th Doc Ford novel (after 2012’s Chasing Midnight). Seaplane pilot...
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Randy Wayne White. Putnam, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-16207-7
At the start of bestseller White’s suspenseful second Hannah Smith novel (after 2012’s Gone), a 100-pound tarpon leaps out of the water onto Smith’s charter boat, knocking two men overboard, and Smith spots a shark heading their way. The scene sets...
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Randy Wayne White. Putnam, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15813-1
The current controversy over phosphate mining provides the backdrop for bestseller White’s solid 21st Doc Ford novel (after 2013’s Night Moves). The marine biologist and former government operative receives a visit from Duncan “Dunk” Fallsdown, a...
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Randy Wayne White. Putnam, $26.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-399-16976-2
In bestseller White's pedestrian third Hannah Smith thriller (after 2013's Deceived), Bunny Tupplemeyer, a Palm Beach socialite, hires Hannah, a Florida-based fishing guide who has taken over her uncle's PI business, to look into quasi-supernatural...
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Randy Wayne White. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15814-8
Present-day Cuba is the setting of bestseller White’s timely 22nd Doc Ford thriller (after 2014’s Bone Deep). The former dictator of Masagua, “a tiny [fictional] country that exported bananas and revolution,” turns to Ford for help after he...
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Randy Wayne White. Putnam, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-17351-6
White’s fast-paced 23rd Doc Ford novel (after 2015’s Cuba Straits) pits the Florida wet work specialist against David Abdel Cashmere, a Chicagoan turned terrorist who features as the executioner of three hostages in several videos. Ford travels to...
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Randy Wayne White. Putnam, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-16977-9
Early in bestseller White’s suspenseful fourth Hannah Smith novel (after 2014’s Haunted), the Florida fishing guide has to deal with the death of 80-year-old Harney Chatham, a former Florida lieutenant governor, in the arms (and bed) of her mother,...
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Randy Wayne White. Putnam, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-57668-3
At issue in bestseller White’s entertaining, if less than compelling, 24th novel featuring marine biologist and sometime government agent Marion “Doc” Ford (after 2016’s Deep Blue) is the fate of Florida Everglades property owned by retired fishing...
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Randy Wayne White, Author . Putnam $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-15540-6
Bestseller White's high-octane 16th thriller to feature Marion “Doc” Ford (after Black Widow
) opens with a splash as Ford deep-sixes serial rapist Bern Heller into the ocean a mile off Sanibel Island, Fla. Killing Heller is a...
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Randy Wayne White, Author . Putnam $24.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-399-14873-6
Fans of the Florida Gulf Coast marine biologist Doc Ford, White's swashbuckling Travis McGee-esque hero, will applaud this ninth Ford suspense novel (after Shark River), though the literati will likely complain that White continues to fall just...
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Randy Wayne White, Author . Putnam $21.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15058-6
This 10th novel in the series featuring ex-CIA spook turned marine biologist Doc Ford (Twelve Mile Limit, etc.), finds Doc wallowing deep in his own doldrums. Out of shape, overweight, depressed and drinking heavily to escape from his turbulent past,
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Randy Wayne White, Author . Putnam $24.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-399-15181-1
White churns out another title in the Doc Ford series, this one alternating between compelling action sequences and pointless digressions. At the start of the novel, Marion Ford has settled into the life of a gentleman marine biologist on Florida'
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Randy Wayne White, Author . Putnam $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-15244-3
Bioterrorist attacks on DisneyWorld, gun-toting Russians and flesh-eating worms aren't enough to stop spy-cum-biologist Marion "Doc" Ford in his 12th adventure. When Ford reluctantly agrees to check in on a friend's brother, Jobe...
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Randy Wayne White, Author . Putnam $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15336-5
The 13th installment of bestseller White's aging but still solid series featuring Doc Ford (after 2005's Dead of Night
) finds the retired CIA operative picking up in the aftermath of a hurricane that's ravaged the Florida coast. Hired...
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Randy Wayne White, Author . Putnam $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15370-9
The 14th Doc Ford Florida thriller (after 2006's Dark Light
) from bestseller White requires more suspension of disbelief than most readers may be willing to provide. Marine biologist Ford, a shadowy figure with multiple links to the...
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Randy Wayne White, Author . Putnam $24.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-399-15456-0
Bestseller Ford’s 15th Doc Ford thriller (after 2007’s Hunter’s Moon
) may baffle newcomers with a backstory relating to the murder of Ford’s parents. Ford, a marine biologist and covert operative who lives on Florida’s
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Randy Wayne White, Author . Putnam $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-14729-6
At a relatively quiet moment in marine biologist/errant knight Doc Ford's eighth adventure, Ford sets a trawl net to collect a dazzling array of sea creatures for a Gulf of Mexico census. The elaborate passage might serve as a handy metaphor for
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Randy Wayne White, Author . Putnam $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-15626-7
At the start of bestseller White’s outstanding 17th Doc Ford thriller (after Dead Silence
), two low-life ex-cons, King and Perry, are on the lam after killing a family of five in a burglary. They end up in Doc’s neck of the woods, or...
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Randy Wayne White, Author Putnam Adult $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14140-9
White, who has always had the talent, moves firmly into the major leagues with his latest Doc Ford story (after Sanibel Flats) and its lavish panorama of cross-cultural and environmental issues played out passionately in south Florida. The Florida...
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Randy Wayne White, Author, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Brilliance Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59086-966-6
The past 11 adventures featuring Marion "Doc" Ford have found the marine biologist/ex–black ops specialist placed in more than his fair share of dangerous situations, and this entry is no exception. When old friend Frieda Matthews asks
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Randy Wayne White, Author, George Guidall, Read by , read by George Guidall. Penguin $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314417-5
Award-winning veteran narrator George Guidall gives a masterful performance of White's latest Doc Ford suspense thriller, creating well-drawn characters, including a grizzled ex-wrestler, two Cuban kidnappers, a teenage boy, a snobby Hamptons...
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Randy Wayne White, read by George Guidall. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 9.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-1-61176-388-1
White’s popular series hero, Florida-based marine biologist Marion “Doc” Ford, is drawn into his 22nd adventure by General Juan Rivera, a larcenous “frenemy” who smuggles Cuban baseball players into the U.S. when he isn’t wheeling and dealing in...
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Randy Wayne White, read by George Guidall, Penguin Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 11 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-0-14-314542-4
When approached by old friend Arlis Futch to help search for lost Cuban gold at the bottom of a Floridian lake, there's no way Doc Ford could anticipate that the easy afternoon dive with friends would turn into a struggle for life both below and...
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Randy Wayne White. Putnam, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1278-7
Bestseller White’s diverting, if sluggish, 25th Doc Ford novel (after 2017’s Mangrove Lightning) focuses on an unlikely couple. A chance meeting in Ocala National Forest between unhappily married Leonard Nickelby, a college professor working for a...
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Randy Wayne White. Putnam, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-735-21272-5
In bestseller White’s subpar 26th Doc Ford novel (after 2018’s Caribbean Rim), Leo Alomar, a shady IRS agent, accuses Doc, a Florida marine biologist, of living above his means. Alomar has figured out that Doc has been selling gold that he retrieved
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Randy Wayne White. Roaring Brook, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-24465-9
The author of the Doc Ford series for adults makes his middle grade debut in this series launch set on that marine biologist’s home turf of Sanibel Island, Fla. After his mother’s death, sixth grader Luke moves from rural Ohio to live with his sea...
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