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1) Dark light
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 13
Language
English
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A Category Four 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 up-and new ones have emerged. The old woman who visits Doc Ford's lab late one night has a haunting story, of a loved one lost while rendezvousing with a German submarine off the coast of Florida sixty years earlier, of her belief that he was being blackmailed and that the storm...
Author
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...
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 25
Language
English
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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...
4) Cuba straits
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 22
Language
English
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Description
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....
5) Gone
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 1
Language
English
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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...
6) Deep blue
Author
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...
7) Bone deep
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 21
Language
English
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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
Dusky MacMorgan adventures volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
x, 246 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ex-Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan survived a military hell only to find it again where he least expects it-as a fisherman trolling the Gulf stream in his thirty-foot clipper. His new life is shattered when a psychotic pack of drug runners turns the turquoise waters red with the blood of his beloved family. Armed with an arsenal so hot it could blow the Florida coast sky-high, he's tracking the goons responsible-right into the intimate circle of a corrupt...
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 12
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xi, 352 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Asked to check on his friend's brother, a reclusive biologist who has not been answering his phone, Doc Ford interrupts a violent crime and finds himself embroiled in a deadly case involving eco-terrorism and personal revenge.
10) Black widow
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 15
Language
English
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Description
It went against all of Ford's instincts. When his goddaughter, Shanay, called one day, he assumed it was with details of her imminent wedding, but the news was anything but cheerful. She and her bridesmaids had thrown a pretty wild bachelorette party, it seemed, on St. Arcs, in the Windward Islands-and someone had secretly videotaped it. Now that person was threatening to blow up her future unless she came across with enough money. "But don't worry,...
Author
Series
Dusky MacMorgan adventures volume 5
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2008], c2006
Physical Desc
xi, 224 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the resort of St. Carib, the rich, famous, and elite flock to have their bodies sculpted and scalpeled to perfection. And that's where ex-SEAL Dusky MacMorgan must take out a cabal of international terrorists before they can wipe out the resort's entire coddled client list. But MacMorgan never expected to fall for a woman whose beauty is beyond reckoning-and he never expected to become a target for assassination himself...
Author
Series
Dusky MacMorgan adventures volume 7
Publisher
Signet Book
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xii, 228 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dusky MacMorgans' old buddy Captain Wes O'Davis has been set up for a murder rap by a gang of kidnappers whose latest victim is the son of Sir Conan James and Lady James, British aristocracy with powerful connections. The ransom note gives them three days to pay up, or the boy dies. But now that Dusky MacMorgan is involved, that gives the kidnappers only three days to live...
13) The deep six
Author
Series
Dusky MacMorgan adventures volume 2
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2006, c1981
Physical Desc
xi, 243 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a well-known eccentric scavenger in Key West shows Dusky MacMorgan a golden chain, it's no ordinary trinket-it's the key to finding a treasure at the bottom of the sea. Before MacMorgan can find out where that is, the eccentric vanishes off his boat, the apparent victim of a shark attack. But MacMorgan suspects the true killer walked on two legs. Surrounded by predators in and out of the water who are armed with both brute strength and breathtaking...
14) Deep shadow
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 17
Language
English
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Description
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,...
15) Deceived
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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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...
16) The deadlier sex
Author
Series
Dusky MacMorgan volume 4
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2007], c1981
Physical Desc
xiii, 212 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dusty MacMorgan and his pal Westy O'Davis are fishing along South Florida's Ten Thousand Island coast when they make a most unusual catch-a naked woman. And no sooner do they get her on board than a nearby trawler explodes. Even more remarkable is the story the waterborne beauty tells upon awakening. She is a member of a hard-core women's group secreted on a local key. And when Mac and Westy escort the lady home, they discover a tropical feminist...
17) Night vision
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 18
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
x, 351 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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
Dusky MacMorgan adventures volume 6
Publisher
Signet/New American Library
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
ix, 212 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dusky MacMorgan is living the good life off sunny Fleming Key. But there’s a storm coming in the form of the beautiful April Yarborough. She’s the daughter of an old pal, and she’s come to ask for MacMorgan’s help. The Yarboroughs have been in Florida forever. Many of them live off the grid, deep in the Everglades. Now someone’s trying to drive them off their cherished swampland. When MacMorgan dives into the fray, he finds that the deadliest...
19) Cuban death-lift
Author
Series
Dusky MacMorgan adventures volume 3
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xi, 239 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Fidel Castro allows thousands of Cubans to depart for America in the Mariel Boatlift, he exports the worst criminals and undesirables of his country along with them. To monitor the situation, the CIA sends infiltrators to Cuba--where they vanish without a trace. In desperation, the Agency turns to ex-Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan to go in and find out what happened.Amid the chaos and deception in Mariel's savage underworld, MacMorgan must keep on...
20) Night moves
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 20
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xiv, 352 pages : map ; 24 cm
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 --...
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