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Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 25
Language
English
Description
Doc Ford's 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, Clive Nickelby, despises amateur archaeologists, which is bad enough, but now he and his young "assistant" have disappeared--along with Fitzpatrick's impounded cache of rare Spanish coins and the list of uncharted wreck sites Fitz spent decades putting together. Some of Fitz's own...
2) Bone deep
Author
Series
Doc Ford 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 whose...
3) Cuba straits
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 22
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Doc Ford's old friend, General Garcia, has gone into the business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He prefers high-profile collectibles, but when he obtains a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro in the early sixties, to a secret girlfriend, Garcia disappears, and then the man to whom he sold the letters. Doc Ford begins to investigate; he soon becomes convinced that those letters contain a secret that someone, or some powerful...
4) Night vision
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 18
Language
English
Description
A lot 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...
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 24
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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...
6) Deep blue
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 23
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Assigned to track down an American working for ISIS and make sure he never kills anyone again, Doc Ford finds the operation more complicated than he anticipated, especially when those complications follow him back to the small community of Dinkin's Bay.
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
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.
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005, c2000
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after a young girl unearths an ancient gold medallion and then mysteriously dies, Doc Ford investigates strange occurrences at the girl's home and concludes that a dangerous person is determined to find the medallion.
9) Shark river
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
On a working vacation to Guava Key, marine biologist Doc Ford notices two female joggers who follow the same route at the same time every day. He can't help thinking how easy it would be for a predator to become aware of them, too. As it turns out, he isn't the only one. There seem to be more and more predators these days. Forced to step in, Ford finds himself involved in a story of intrigue and revenge that becomes more dangerous with every turn-and...
10) Dark light
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 13
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
11) Hunter's moon
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 14
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Doc Ford saves a former President of the United States from assassination-and regrets it. Months ago, Kal Wilson's wife was killed in a plane crash. President Wilson is sure it was no accident-and he wants revenge. He needs Doc Ford to spring him loose from the watchful eye of the Secret Service, keep him alive, then get him home. Ford has just been picked for presidential duty- whether he likes it or not.
12) Dead of night
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 12
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2005
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.
13) Deep shadow
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 17
Language
English
Description
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, they're intent on diving to the bottom of the very deep...
14) Night moves
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 20
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
15) Black widow
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 15
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
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, he finds that the woman responsible is an agent of corruption unlike any Ford has ever encountered before. And she may be the last encounter he ever has.
16) The Heat Islands
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1993, c1992
Language
English
Description
When Doc Ford's friend--the simplest and sweetest resident of Sanibel Island--is framed for murder, Doc heads to Florida's dark side to save him and the island from a rising tide of land-grab schemes, blood money, and violence.
17) Everglades
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Meeting a former lover whose husband has disappeared and been pronounced dead, Doc Ford investigates the woman's suspicions of foul play and finds himself deep in the Everglades.
18) Sanibel Flats
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1991, c1990
Language
English
Description
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...
19) Dead silence
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 16
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his U.S. senator girlfriend is kidnapped during an assassination attempt outside the Explorers Club in New York City, Doc Ford sets out on a rescue mission in the Florida Keys with his friend Tomlinson.
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 27
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A month before a killer hurricane hits Florida, Doc Ford gets a heads-up from a state department pal that during recent natural disasters, a group of paramilitary contractors have used the post storm chaos as a license to steal-and kill. Doc doesn't give the warning much thought until the night the big storm hits. He's alone. The marina is a ghost town. Doc would have evacuated too but had to work a last-minute deal with the owner of the marina and...
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