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1) Night moves
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Both Doc Ford and his friend Tomlinson have buried secrets. Now one of those secrets is about to come alive -- with a vengeance. While trying to solve one of Florida's most profound secrets, Doc Ford is the target of a murder attempt by someone who wants to make it look like an accident. Or is the target actually Tomlinson? Whatever the answer, the liveaboards and fishing guides at Dinkin's Bay on Sanibel Island are becoming increasingly nervous --...
2) Bone deep
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 21
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
When Doc Ford investigates a tragedy that claims the life of his close friend, diver Janet Mueller, he uncovers dark rumors about the case involving everything from fraud to smuggling to murder.
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Series
Doc Ford novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
When Ford saves from assassination a controversial former President of the United States who is staying on an island off Florida's west coast, he has no idea what he's just let himself in for. Kal Wilson knows that he has only a short time to live, and he has a full agenda. Just months before, his wife was killed in a plane crash while carrying medical supplies to Nicaragua - a tragic accident, everyone agreed, except Wilson is sure it was no accident,...
5) Night vision
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 18
Language
English
Description
Alot is going on in the trailer park known as Little Guadalajara, inhabited principally by illegal laborers. The park manager is the hired gun of a financial syndicate that wants to develop the property, and he's prepared to do whatever it takes-but he can't figure out what to do about the teenage girl, the one the laborers believe has some sort of gift. When she witnesses him killing a man, though, and runs, there's nothing left to figure: He's got...
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Government agent-turned-marine-biologist Doc Ford returns in a steamy tale that begins with the suspicious suicide of a fifteen-year-old girl-and ends in a shadowy world of ancient ritual and modern corruption.
7) Gone
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Hannah Smith: a tall, strong, formidable Florida woman, the descendant of generations of strong Florida women. She makes her living as a fishing guide, but her friends, neighbors, and clients also know her as an uncommonly resourceful woman with a keen sense of justice -- someone who can't be bullied -- and they have taken to coming to her with their problems. Her methods can be unorthodox, though, and those on the receiving end of them often wind...
8) Dead silence
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
Winter in New York City: Amid sleet and snow, Doc Ford is at the Explorers Club with his new friend, former (and maybe current) British agent Sir James Montbard, researching a jungle expedition and awaiting the arrival of an attractive U.S. senator with whom Ford has become more than friendly. Her car pulls up, she starts to get out--and the unthinkable happens: an abduction attempt right before Fordś eyes. Ford engages, managing to save the senator,...
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 1
Language
English
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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 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...
10) Caribbean rim
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 25
Language
English
Description
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 director, Leonard Nickelby, despises amateur archaeologists, which is bad enough, but now he and his young 'assistant' have disappeared -- along with Fitzpatrick's impounded...
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 6
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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Description
Marine biologist Doc Ford craves the quiet life on Sanibel Island, collecting specimens and waxing philosophical with aging hippie pal Tomlinson, but his past connections with the CIA keep complicating matters. This time, it's the daughter of a dead war buddy who enlists Doc's help. Her mother, who has taken up with a con man, has disappeared, perhaps unwillingly. Doc follows the trail from Mexico to Panama, where the con man, a monument to evil,...
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
When solitary marine biologist Doc Ford focused his telescope on the woman inthe 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 insearch 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,...
13) Tampa burn
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 11
Language
English
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Description
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.
14) Chasing midnight
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Series
Doc Ford novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
It began peacefully enough, on one of Florida's private islands. 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...
15) Deep blue
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Series
Doc Ford novels volume 23
Language
English
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Description
Doc Ford has long lived a double life. This time, it may finally have caught up to him. "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, as part of his shadowy second life, to make sure he never kills anybody else...
16) Shark river
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 8
Language
English
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Description
What starts out as a normal Florida Keys work-vacation for marine biologist Doc Ford quickly turns into a hurricane of kidnapping, revenge-even murder. And while he can't see through the tropical storm, pieces of his past begin to appear.
17) The heat islands
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 dark side-to save his friend from being framed, and to save Sanibel Island from a rising...
18) Captiva
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the seconds between touching off a homemade bomb in Dinkin's Bay and giving up the ghost, Jimmy Darroux asks ``Doc'' Ford's buddy Tomlinson to ``take care of Hannah.'' But when Ford and Tomlinson make the trip to nearby Sulphur Wells to see Jimmy's salty widow, it turns out she hated him and his abuse and is delighted he's dead (and she's not the only one). So what did he mean, and how can they take care of her?
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 24
Language
English
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Description
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...
20) Deceived
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A twenty-year-old unsolved murder from Florida's pothauling days gets Hannah Smith's attention, but so does a more immediate problem. A private museum devoted solely to the state's earliest settlers and pioneers has been announced, and many of Hannah's friends and neighbors in Sulfur Wells are being pressured to make contributions. The problem is, the whole thing is a scam, and when Hannah sets out to uncover whoever's behind it, she discovers that...
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