โ Scribed by Randy Wayne White
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Award-winning veteran narrator George Guidall gives a masterful performance of White's latest Doc Ford suspense thriller, creating well-drawn characters, including a grizzled ex-wrestler, two Cuban kidnappers, a teenage boy, a snobby Hamptons millionaire and Ford's hippie colleague. The scenes in which Ford painstakingly pieces together clues and provides backstory tend to drag a bit, but the action sequences are gripping and nail-bitingly suspenseful. Mystery fans are well advised to snatch this one up. A Putnam hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 19). (Mar.)
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Retirement didnt sit well with Doc Ford, Whites marine biologist and black-ops agent. Docs back in the game now but choosing his own projects, including aspot ofvigilante settling up withthe serial rapist who killed one of the fishing guides from Dinkins Bay Marina, Sanibel Island, Docs beloved home. With the local cops on his tail, Doc hops a plane for New York, there to rendezvous witha fetching U.S. senator who finds the biologists horned-rim glasses and broad shoulders a very appealing combination. Naturally, things happen. Ford witnesses the senators attempted kidnapping and manages to keep her out of harms way, but another person riding in the limo, a 14-year-old Native American boy, is snatched instead. Its all part of a scheme by some rogue Cubans to recover a cache of Castros private papers. Soon enough the boy has been buried alive (with an air vent providing a rapidly diminishing air supply), and Ford and best-buddy Tomlinson, who hails from Long Island, are on the trail. The action, typical for White, is relentless, and the tension builds agonizingly (nothing like burying somebody alive to ratchet up the suspense). But the real interest here is the glimpse White provides of Tomlinsons background (rich kid with seriously bent kinfolk). This may not be the tightest or most entertaining novel in the series, but longtime fansof whom there are manyhave been wanting tohear more of hippie-dippy Tomlinsons backstory for years, and theyll be overjoyed to get their wish. --Bill Ott
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