Doc Ford novels
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5 stars
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"After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. But spending each day watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for hs beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the locals over a cold beer lulled him into letting his guard down. then Rafe Hollins appeared. How could he refuse his old friend's request--even if it put him...
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3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Tuck Gatrell has found the fountain of youth in a corner of his ranch in the Ten Thousand Islands of the Florida Everglades. But to prove it to the world, he needs the help of the last of the Calusa Indians, the man who wrote The Orange Blossom Special, and his nephew Doc Ford.
4. Captiva
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4.
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“A Doc Ford novel has more slick moves than a snake in the mangroves. In Captiva , Randy Wayne White takes us places that no other Florida mystery writer could hope to find.”—Carl Hiaasen Randy Wayne White is acclaimed as "wildly inventive" ( The San Diego Union-Tribune ), "a wonderful writer" (Paul Theroux), "a fine storyteller" (Peter Matthiessen), and "the rightful heir to John D. MacDonald" ( The Tampa Tribune-Times ). Now...
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5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Florida marine biologist Doc Ford receives a call for help from a friend whose boat strayed into Cuban waters. Equipped with money for fines, bills and bribes, Ford arrives in Havana with his girlfriend and as he searches for his friend becomes involved in a hunt for the coffin of Columbus.
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Government agent-turned-marine biologist Doc Ford sails an endless sea of questions when he agrees to investigate a death from the past. Years ago, off Florida’s Gulf Coast, a teenaged girl found an ancient gold medallion. Then, she began having nightmares. Then she was found hanging from a tree. Now, years later, the girl’s mother is being terrorized with break-ins, phone calls with no one there—and her daughter’s grave has...
8. Shark river
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Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Randy Wayne White's Ten Thousand Islands was "one of the most satisfying thrillers in recent memory"— Chicago Tribune "Of all the writers [in] the Florida mayhem boom, only White can claim to have created a series hero to match Hemingway's memorable outdoorsmen and John D. MacDonald's much-missed Travis McGee."— Publishers Weekly (starred review) The past comes disconcertingly alive for Doc Ford in Randy Wayne White's most...
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9.
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"We'll drop anything we're doing [for] a new Randy White novel and be glad we did." ( Denver Post ) Randy Wayne White's ninth Doc Ford novel starts out as a fun excursion for four divers off the Florida coast. Two days later only one is found alive - naked atop a light tower in the Gulf of Mexico. What happened during those 48 hours? Doc Ford thinks he's prepared for the truth. He isn't.
10. Everglades
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10.
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In this thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Randy Wayne White, Doc Ford returns to his stilt house on Dinkin's 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's 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...
11. Tampa burn
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11.
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The abduction of Doc Ford's son pulls the former assassin back into business—and into the trap of an avenging politico with a twisted and violent plan of revenge.
12. Dead of night
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12.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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New York Times bestselling author “Randy Wayne White spins another terrific Florida tale”* in this thriller of bio-terror and extreme revenge. It starts with a simple request: check up on the mysteriously reclusive biologist brother of an old friend. But what Doc Ford stumbles upon in the doctor’s secluded island home is a nightmare. He has hanged himself—and his body is host to a rare strain of feeding, breathing parasites....
13. Dark light
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13.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Imagine hurricane winds over the Sahara Desert, preceded by a cavalry of tornadoes. Imagine dunes flattened, then resculpted. Then imagine all that at the bottom of the sea. A Category 4 hurricane has swept the west coast of Florida, creating havoc, changing lives, and reshaping the ocean bottom. Well-known reefs and wrecks have been covered—and new ones have emerged. From one such wreck, marine...
14. Hunter's moon
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Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Saving a controversial former U.S. president from an assassination attempt, Doc Ford learns that the government is planning a secret strike on an oil-rich Central American nation that the former president, aided by a pair of questionable adversaries, is attempting to prevent.
15. Black widow
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15.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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A cult of death. A weapon of apocalyptic horror. Juan Cabrillo must stop them both. THE "FASCINATING" ( BOOKLIST ) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Some women you love. Some women you hate. Some women you survive. Doc Ford is drawn into a deadly battle when his goddaughter Shay is blackmailed. Someone filmed her at an out-of-control bachelorette party, and they want big money to keep it quiet. When Ford investigates, he finds that the woman responsible...
16. Dead silence
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Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Winter in New York City: Doc Ford is at the Explorers Club. He foils an abduction attempt on a senator, but the companion in her car is snatched-- and buried alive, leading to a series of remakable twists and revelations.
17. Deep shadow
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Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Many dangers lurk in the deep-the worst of them are human. Thirty minutes into what should have been an easy, beginner-level dive in a remote Florida lake, the rim of a cave collapses, trapping two of Doc Ford's friends. Ford himself manages to escape and quickly surfaces to find help-but that's when his troubles only begin. Two men are waiting for him on the shore, and they are not the kind of men you want to meet at any time. Murderers and ex-cons,...
18. Night vision
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18.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When a local teen from a trailer park being targeted by powerful developers witnesses their hired gun committing a murder, her only hope for survival falls in the hands of Doc Ford and Tomlinson, who undertake a search through the underground in the hopes of finding her first.
19. Chasing midnight
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Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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At a reception hosted by a notorious Russian black marketeer, Doc Ford uses darkness, and his friend Tomlinson, as cover to get an underwater look at the billionaire's yacht. By the time Ford surfaces, everything has changed. Environmental extremists have taken control of the island. Or are they thugs hired by the Russian's competitors? Whatever the motive, they have herded everyone together and threatened to kill one hostage every hour until midnight...
20. Night moves
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Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Unsure if he or his friend Tomlinson was the target of a recent murder attempt, Doc Ford continues investigating a near-poisoning, a plane crash, and an explosion off Sanibel Island.
21. Bone deep
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Series Volume:
21.
Average Rating:
2.8 stars
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"When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson's asks him to help recover a relic stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along--but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they've let themselves in for. Their search takes them to the part of Central Florida known as Bone Valley, famous primarily for two things: a ruthless subculture of black-marketers who trade in illegal artifacts and fossils, and a multibillion-dollar phosphate industry whose...
22. Cuba straits
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Series Volume:
22.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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"Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items-high-profile collectibles-but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960-62 to a secret girlfriend, it's not a matter of money anymore. Garcia...
23. Deep blue
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Series Volume:
23.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Doc Ford has long lived a double life. This time, it may finally have caught up to him. The electrifying new thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author. "I'll make an example of someone close to you." On a moonless night on Sanibel Island, Florida, marine biologist Marion "Doc" Ford carefully watches a video of a hooded man executing three hostages. The man is an American working with ISIS, and in the next few days, it'll be Ford's job,...
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24.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest. A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come to him, muttering about a curse. The members of his extended family have suffered a bizarre series of attacks, and Barlow is convinced it has something to do with a multiple murder in 1925, in which his family had a shameful part. Ford doesn't believe in curses, but as he and his friend Tomlinson begin...
25. Caribbean rim
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Series Volume:
25.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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"Murder, sunken treasure, and pirates both ancient and modern send Doc Ford on a nightmare quest in the thrilling new novel in the New York Times-bestselling series. Marine biologist Doc Ford has been known to help his friends out of jams occasionally, but he's never faced a situation like this. His old pal Carl Fitzpatrick has been chasing sunken wrecks most of his life, but now he's run afoul of the Florida Division of Historical Resources. Its...
26. Salt River
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Series Volume:
26.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Marine biologist and former government agent Doc Ford is sure he's beyond the point of being surprised by his longtime pal Tomlinson's madcap tales of his misspent youth. But he's stunned anew when avowed bachelor Tomlinson reveals that as a younger man strapped for cash, he'd unwittingly fathered multiple children via for-profit sperm bank donations. Thanks to genealogy websites, Tomlinson's now-grown offspring have tracked him down, seeking answers...