Books by Randy Wayne White? Who?

I grew up in Southwest Florida since I was 5yrs old.  I learned at a very early age how to swim, fish, and boat, and it quickly became a way of life.  Everything I did revolved around my favorite activities.  As soon as I woke up in the morning I’d run down to the canal behind my house and set up my crab traps or check to see if my boat had slept alright.  Then off to school where I’d draw, write, and show-n-tell about what I had done the night before of what I had caught.  This went on every day of my life until the real estate market crashed in 2006 and I was force to move out of Cape Coral, Florida to the mountains of Tennessee.  Now don’t get me wrong the Appalachian Mountains are magnificently beautiful all year around, but I’m a water baby and I missed being around it.  Of course there is some fishing and boating in Tennessee, but it’s not exactly what I expected.  I found myself standing in six inches of freezing cold water catching fish I’d only use for bait on the flats. 

I started working for Outback Leather in Pigeon Forge, Tn, and met a lady that had moved from Sanibel a few years before.  We started talking about “Home” and reminiscing and the conversation came to the point that I missed home.  She had asked me if I had every read any books by Randy Wayne White?  I told her no I hadn’t so she gave me a few of his books.  After a few days had went by I ran into her again, and told her that these books had been the cure for my homesickness or at least had giving me a better hope for someday eventually returning to my “Home”.  Ever since that first book I read I’ve been absolutely  “hooked”. 

Randy Wayne White is by far one of the most descriptive writers I have ever read, he brings the sites, sounds, textures and even smells of Sanibel to life in his epic action/adventure books.  His leading character Marion “Doc” Ford is a retired black ops guy who lives in a tight knit little marina known as Dinkins Bay.  As you get to know “Doc”  you’ll see that as contempt as he is doing work for his own company “Sanibel Biological Supply“, he is easily involved in the problems with his friends and family located in Florida.  Doc being the all around good guy and problem solver that he is, is all about getting his hands dirty, and his hippie friend Tomlinson is always there to go along for the adventure.  Your going to absolutely love these books, so take the time and actually read this WHOLE page!

“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 guard down.

Then Rafe Hollins appeared.

How could he refuse his old friend’s request-even if it would put him back on the firing line?  Even if it would change forever the life he’d rebuilt here on Sanibel Island?”

As Doc Ford and Tomlison sit on his dock gazing at stars, a violent explosion erupts just a little ways away. This leads them into a battle between sport and commercial fisherman that escalates in to arson and murder. This book takes you in deep in to the controversy over whether or not net bans should have been put in place in South-West Florida, and some scenarios that might have happened

"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 write could hope to find." --Carl Hiasen

Marine biologist and former secret operative Doc Ford is lazily poling his skiff along Southwest Florida’s flat copper sea in search of sea anemones, when he runs into the body of the most hated man on Sanibel Island--Marvin Rios.

And when the Island’s simplest and sweetest resident is arrested for the murder, Doc heads straight into the heart of the sunshine state’s darkest side--to save his friend from being framed, and to save Sanibel Island from a rising tide of land-grab schemes, blood money, and violence.

White’s newest thriller takes Doc Ford to Havana, where a friend is being held by the Cuban government.  Still haunted by his suspected involvement in a plot against Castro, Ford leaves Florida and ventures to Cuba--where he finds himself entangled in a web of murder, revenge and assassination.

“We’ll drop anything we’re doing to read a new Randy White novel and be glad we did.”--The Denver Post

When solitary marine biologist Doc Ford focused his telescope on the woman in the white boat, he didn’t know his life was about to be capsized: that his conniving uncle Tucker Gatrell would discover the Fountain of Youth, that The National Enquirer would write about it, and that the law would beat down his door in search of three missing men.

But Doc Ford is about to find these things out--the hard way.  Because in the shadowy world of Southwest Florida, where gators yawn, cattle craze, and Indian bones are buried, mysteries great and small have found the man to solve them…

Doc Ford returns to his stilt house on Dinkin’s Bay to find and old friend and onetime lover waiting for him.  Her real-estate developer husband has disappeared and been pronounced dead.  She’s sure there’s worse to follow--and she’s right.  Ford follows the trail deep into the everglades, where a shady character and his get-rich-quick scheme are about to put both of their lives on the endangered list.

"White Brings vivid imagination to his fight scenes...it all roars along with cliff hanger chapter endings and great technogear.  Thing Mickey Spillane meets The Matrix ...Rich and Mysterious.--People

Florida marine biologist Doc Ford lands hip-deep in hot water when the daughter of a dead war buddy calls asking for help.  Her mother has vanished without a trace in South America--while with an unsavory companion--and all of her money has disappeared with her.  Doc’s efforts to find her take him from the steamy jungles of Columbia to the violent streets of Panama and onto the trail of the vilest man he has ever met.  More sinister though, is the person following him--a shadowy figure who seems to appear out of nowhere, leaving only death in his wake.

On a crisp November morning, four divers set off for an excursion fifty-six miles off the Florida coast.  Two days later, only one is found alive, standing naked atop a light tower in the Gulf of Mexico.  Of her three companions, not a trace exists.  One of them is Doc Ford’s friend, Janet Mueller.  Then the rumors begin--of kidnapping and murder.  But Doc need to know what really happened on that dark, starry night out in the black Gulf Stream.  He think he’s prepared for anything.  He doesn’t know how wrong he is.  Or how far and dangerously adrift his quest for the truth will take him.

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 the Florida’s Gulf Coast, a teenage girl found a gold medallion.  Then she began having nightmares.  The she was found hanging from a tree.

Now, years later, the girl’s mother is being terrorized by break-ins, phone calls with no one there--and her daughter’s grave being dug up.  Somebody wants that medallion.

The search for answers will lead Doc through a shadowy world of ancient ritual and modern corruption, to an evil that was born in the past--but lives in the present…

A Category 4 hurricane has swept the west coast of Florida, creating havoc, changing lives, and reshaping the ocean bottom. It also uncovers a long forgotten shipwreck that leads Doc Ford to an old woman in a secluded, worn-down mansion. She tells him the haunting story of a lost love, and of her chance to discover the truth if Ford will salvage the boat--the Dark Light. Intrigued, Ford agrees, and sets in motion a chain of events that will chance his life forever. For there are other things in that wreck. Things other men want. Things worth killing for. And behind it all is an old woman whose heart remains the greatest mystery of all…

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