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Ten Thousand Islands 32 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Berkley, 2001
One of White's Best Doc Ford Novels
In TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS Doc Ford and Tomlinson investigate the bizarre case of a dead girl's grave being dug up and her mother's home being burglarized by thieves who are in search of a gold medallion found by the girl shortly before her death several years ago. The story takes place around Sanibel Island, Captiva Island, Marco Island and Key Largo. The reader learns a lot about the ancient ...
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The Man Who Invented Florida (A Doc Ford Novel) 16 reviews
Randy Wayne White
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1997
A human story, not a thriller
I stopped reading the Doc Ford novels after a while because, despite being top of the line Florida thrillers, the histrionic violence and action just got to be too much. Now I find myself wishing RWW would write more stories like The Man Who Invented Florida. This is the one that transcends the genre to become excellent mainstream literature.
If you're looking for an action flick in novel ...
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Hunter's Moon40 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Berkley, 2008
hunters moon
I liked the book a lot ..I have read all his books and have them all. I have even went to DOC FORDS on Sanibel Island!
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North of Havana10 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Berkley, 1998
One of my all time favorite writers
RWW is always excellent! I have read his 1st five books this last year-
normally I get bored with authors and will not read more than 2 a year.
Each story is very different from the previous yet is very much part of the series.
Each character seems authentic and with a voice unique from the others.
Most authors seem to have trouble doing this - their characters talk from the roughly the ...
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Sanibel Flats (A Doc Ford Novel) 26 reviews
Randy Wayne White
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1991
Emeralds, Mayan Artifacts, and Gun Runners
I enjoyed this first Doc Ford novel. I am trying to read them in order. Doc has to help his high school friend get back his son who has been kidnapped by a Central American General.
When Doc and Tomlison find themselves held captive by this evil man, I thought RWW had written himself into the proverbial corner. Very inventive solution to escape the small army with the boy. Many adventures in ...
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The Heat Islands: A Doc Ford Novel (Doc Ford Novels)8 reviews
Randy Wayne White
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1993
North of Havana
Love the "Doc Ford" adventures, especially all the references to Florida. Author makes each page an easy read and very hard to put down in the middle of the adventures. Just discovered Randy Wayne White and want more, more, more!!!
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Cuban Death-Lift11 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Signet, 2007
Must read for Randy Wayne White fans
Even though the names were different (author and hero) the background foundation for Doc Ford is unmistakable and fun to read. Can't wait to read "The Deadlier Sex" as the follow-up to this great begining for Randy (Striker) Wayne White. I also enjoyed White's present day introduction to this book.
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Key West Connection12 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Signet, 2006
Randy Wayne was good from the get-go
I didn't expect such a good read from Randy's early efforts but this was as good a read as the current Doc Ford stuff especially considering the rules dictated by the publisher concerning the character. Good job, Randy.
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Captiva18 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Berkley, 1997
"What a Book"
I have read all but a couple of Randy Wayne Whites books and think that Captiva is a great book,The best so far. I just got done reading Sanibel Flats and The Heat Islands and thought they they were very exiciting also, but Captiva left you on on the edge of your seat, wondering what is going to happen next. I really enjoy reading about Florida/Key West mysteries. I find them very satisfying.
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Black Widow15 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Putnam Adult, 2008
Great Read
This is my first Randy Wayne White book. I have heard the members of my book discussion group rave about his books even though we have never read one of his.
This book was all that was promised and then some. I was hooked on the first page. Now I will start reading the rest of his books.
This book was filled with suspense- but not overloaded with gore. It left a lot to your imagination.
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The Deadlier Sex (Dusky Macmorgan) 2 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Signet, 2007
MacMorgan and the Island of Beautiful Women
Long before Randy Wayne White carved out his own niche in mystery fiction with his Doc Ford novels, he had written a series of adventure novels under the pseudonym Randy Striker. These Dusky MacMorgan books were never intended to be great literature, but instead throwaway thrillers geared towards principally towards men: there was lots of action and lots of beautiful women.
The Deadlier Sex ...
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Randy Wayne White's Gulf Coast Cookbook: With Memories and Photos of Sanibel Island11 reviews
Randy Wayne White, Carlene Fredericka Brennen
The Lyons Press, 2006
very nice
very good recipes, and a great batch of
photos of sanibel, randy and friends.
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Dead of Night27 reviews
Randy Wayne White
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005
Biological Terrorism Reality
One of White's best novels. Doc is asked to visit a brother of a friend. He arrives to find the brother being beaten by two Russians. He chases the bad guys and returns to find the brother has hung himself and worms are crawling out of his body. The Guinea Worms are not found in Florida. Doc is called in on the case by his Black OPS boss. The country suspects Terrorism. Doc's friend is murdered ...
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The Deep Six2 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Signet, 2006
Early Randy Wayne White, Good Randy Wayne White
Years before Randy Wayne White started writing his wonderful Doc Ford novels - and wound up with the best successor to John MacDonald's Travis McGee - he wrote a series of minor adventure novels featuring ex-SEAL Dusky MacMorgan. As even White more-or-less admits in his introduction to this reissue of these books, these were never intended to be great literature. They were cheap adventure ...
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Shark River35 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Berkley, 2002
Good Enough
In SHARK RIVER Doc Ford is shot while instinctively coming to the rescue of a young woman who is almost kidnapped by some very bad guys from a Columbian drug cartel. When the FBI tries to pressure Ford into helping them solve the case he resists as usual fearing that some of his past deeds as a secret government operative may come back to haunt him. Ford is able to put off the FBI but not ...
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Tampa Burn23 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Berkley, 2005
At the top of his game
Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford series started out rather modestly about a dozen years ago. Marion "Doc" Ford is a sort of a cross between Travis McGee and Jacques Cousteau, a marine biologist with a murky past who lives in a house on stilts in the harbor of an island off of Florida's West coast. Ford is the main character and narrator of a series of novels in which he deals with various bad people, ...
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The Mangrove Coast (Prime Crime Mysteries)18 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Berkley, 1999
A Sucker for a Damsel in Distress
Doc Ford is Marion Ford, Ph.D., a Harrison Ford type marine biologist who lives alone in a stilt cabin on Sanibel Island. Ford is footloose and fancy free until - in each book - his peace and tranquillity is disturbed by a very attractive damsel in distress.
On and off again Ford has been haunted by the death of spook pal Bobby Richardson, who died in an explosion in Cambodia during the ...
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Twelve Mile Limit20 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Berkley, 2003
Latest novel in the Doc Ford series
Dr. Marion "Doc" Ford is a marine biologist who lives in a house on stilts, off the west coast of Florida, and makes a living harvesting and supplying labs and schools with ocean wildlife local to the area. However, he has a dark past, having worked as one of the "Negotiators," a shadowy organization that works for the U.S. Government. The Negotiators have a talk with people who are being ...
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Dark Light (Doc Ford Novels) 27 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Putnam Adult, 2006
Hurricanes and Sunken Treasure
This tale had lots of things Florida is famous for like hurricanes and sunken treasure.
I live in Florida and this book brought back lots of memories of Hurricane Charley. RWW accurately describes dealing with the government and insurance companies after a hurricane.
I'd never thought much about WWII and the possibility of shipwrecks from the era. This book kept my interest with its ...
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Everglades14 reviews
Randy Wayne White
Berkley, 2004
Everglades a nice return to a series I had abandoned
I have been a fan of Randy Wayne White since I first read his columns in Outside magazine. I loved the early books in the Doc Ford series, but felt that they took a dark and offensively misogynist turn somewhere around North of Havana. I stopped reading them after The Mangrove Coast. I joked to a friend that the author must be going through a nasty divorce or something, because he seemed to ...
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