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Doc Ford novels

Author:
White, Randy Wayne
 
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Star rating for Sanibel flats
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Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. Its dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him. 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 his beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the locals over a cold beer lulled him into letting his...

2.  The heat islands

 
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3.  The man who invented Florida

 
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Star rating for Captiva
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2 stars
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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...

5.  North of Havana

 
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Star rating for The Mangrove Coast
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Marine Biologist Doc Ford is hot on the trail of a dead friend's wife. Apparently, the woman vanished into the steaming jungles of South America guided by a truly disgusting specimen of humanity. From Florida to Columbia and Panama, Doc traces their path, but a shadowy figure is following him-and the violence left in the wake of this individual is terrifying.
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Star rating for Ten Thousand Islands
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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

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8.  Shark river

 
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9.  Twelve mile limit

 
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10.  Everglades

 
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Star rating for Tampa Burn
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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.
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Star rating for Dead of night
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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

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Star rating for Dark light
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Best-selling author Randy Wayne White and his character Doc Ford are favorites of suspense fans across the nation. The exhilarating thriller Dark Light unfolds in the wake of a devastating hurricane in West Florida. After the storm, Doc Ford is visited by an elderly woman searching for the truth about her long-lost lover, drowned at sea while attempting to contact a Nazi submarine during the war. When Doc investigates, he enters a deadly

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Star rating for Hunter's moon
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Randy Wayne White has been praised as "the best new writer since [Carl] Hiaasen" (Denver Post), and his Doc Ford novels have consistently been New York Times best-sellers. Doc Ford, a former black-ops specialist, is a marine biologist on Florida's Sanibel Island. Yet he still seems to always find himself in the middle of a crime scheme. When Doc ends up saving the life of a controversial ex-president, he finds out that the United

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Star rating for Black widow
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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,
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Star rating for Dead silence
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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 remarkable twists and revelations.
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Star rating for Deep shadow
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In a remote Florida lake, a cave collapses, trapping Doc Ford and two of his friends. Ford manages to escape and surfaces to find help-but two ex-cons are waiting for him. They're intent on diving to the bottom of the deep lake and finding the remains of a legendary plane, supposedly loaded with gold. Ford's expertise is just what they need. And if he doesn't help, Ford and his friends are dead in the water.
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Star rating for Night vision
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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.
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Star rating for Chasing midnight
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In the new novel from New York Times bestselling author Randy Wayne White, Doc Ford is the only hope for an island of hostages.
 
On one of Florida’s private islands, a notorious Russian black marketer is hosting a reception. Doc Ford only wanted to get an underwater look at the billionaire’s yacht. But when he surfaces, he gets a look at something he’d rather not see.
A group of violent, armed men have...
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Star rating for Night moves
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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 .
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Star rating for Bone Deep
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"The stunning new thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author. 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...
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Star rating for Cuba straits
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"A thriller featuring Doc Ford, written in the style of, and so as to appeal to, the audiences of Dead Silence and Night Vision"-- "The remarkable new novel in the Doc Ford series by New York Times-bestselling author Randy Wayne White. 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...
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Star rating for Deep blue
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Doc Ford has long lived a double life. But in this electrifying New York Times bestselling novel, it may finally have caught up to him...
 
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, as part of his...
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Star rating for Mangrove lightning
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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The ghosts of a 1925 multiple murder stalk Doc Ford in this electrifying novel in the New York Times–bestselling series.
 
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...
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Star rating for Caribbean rim
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Average Rating:
5 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. "--
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Star rating for Salt River
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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"The sins of the past come back to haunt Doc Ford and his old friend Tomlinson in this thrilling new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Randy Wayne White"--
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Star rating for One deadly eye
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"A Russian diplomat disappears while Doc is tagging great white sharks in South Africa, and members of a criminal brotherhood, Bratva, don't think it's a coincidence. They track the biologist to Dinkin's Bay Marina on the west coast of Florida, where Brotherhood mercenaries have already deployed, prepared to pillage and kill in the wake of an approaching hurricane. No one, however, is prepared for a cataclysmic event that will forever change the island...