Tomlinson might or might not be modeled after real people but, to their many kindred readers, the two men are as real as Florida’s Gulf Coast and the islands that provide the settings for Randy’s novels. If you have read all seventeen novels (soon to be eighteen) you’ll recognize a few faces here, a few names and more than a few quirky characters. But if you are new to Doc Ford country, we hope you, too, find a home among the sun-baked, laid-back people who inhabit Florida’s Mangrove Coast of fiction and fact.

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WHERE Marine biologist, Dr. Marion Ford and his

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Tomlinson might or might not be modeled after real people but, to their many kindred readers, the two men are as real as Florida’s Gulf Coast and the islands that provide the settings for Randy’s novels. If you have read all seventeen novels (soon to be eighteen) you’ll recognize a few faces here, a few names and more than a few quirky characters. But if you are new to Doc Ford country, we hope you, too, find a home among the sun-baked, laid-back people who inhabit Florida’s Mangrove Coast of fiction and fact.

CHASING MIDNIGHT
(DOC FORD # 19 Arrives Feb. 2012)

Randy’s newest Doc Ford, CHASING MIDNIGHT, will be released in late February and he thinks it’s not only among his best thrillers, but also, in his words, “I think this is Tomlinson and Ford interplaying at their best. The dialogue between the two was a joy to write, and reveals much about the complicated polarity that, at once, adjoins and separates these two good men.”
“The book is set entirely on Florida’s west coast, and has much to do with Gulf sturgeon, a little known species of fish that was once common in the area. I did a great deal of research on sturgeon, caviar, and the black market caviar trade, all key to what is (once again) a complicated plot -- but a plot line that charges along, chapter to chapter, from the book’s very first sentence:
“I was beneath fifteen-feet of water, at night, observing a dinosaurian fish that produces a modern gourmet delicacy, when something exploded and knocked out the marina’s underwater lights. . . .
“Chapter to chapter, CHASING MIDNIGHT rarely pauses for a breath from the start, but, when it does, it is for those reflective pauses during which Ford and Tomlinson interact, and sometimes lock horns -- something I always enjoy. CHASING MIDNIGHT is pure Florida, full of the Dinkin’s Bay characters that are my life, my home.”
I will post Randy’s book tour schedule soon
-- Steve Grendon

RAVE REVIEWS FOR NIGHT VISION!

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY (Starred Review!)

Night Vision

Randy Wayne White, Putnam, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15705-9

In White's intelligent, fast-paced 18th Doc Ford thriller (after Deep Shadow), Doc's hipster friend, Tomlinson, persuades Doc to help an extraordinary 13-year-old girl, Tula Choimha, recently arrived at a Florida trailer park from Guatemala. Tula, who speaks with God and whose patron saint is Joan of Arc, is determined to find her mother and brother, who came to America months earlier but have disappeared. People who get to know Tula believe she is special, blessed, even a saint--except for the sleazy, steroid-infused trailer park landlord, Harris Squires. Fearful that the discovery of some human remains inside an alligator carcass will implicate him in a crime witnessed by Tula, the paranoid Harris kidnaps Tula and takes off. Doc sets out to rescue Tula, but standing in his way is a menacing gangbanger, Victorino, and Harris's vicious girlfriend, Frankie. White balances the sordid criminal activities with plenty of intriguing wildlife lore. The bond that Tula forms with her captor adds poignancy. (Feb.)

BOOKLIST REVIEW (January 2011)

Trouble is brewing at a Florida trailer park populated by illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America : the park’s manager, a steroid freak who dabbles in snuff movies, draws his expendable talent from the immigrant population, but he’s managed to offend a drug lord, who isn’t pleased that his female customers are turning up dead. Matters are further complicated when an adolescent girl, Tula , rumored to possess mystical ability, sees the manager feeding a body to his pet gator. Doc Ford, Sanibel Island marine biologist and sometime black-ops agent, is drawn into the trailer-park trauma by his longtime friend Tomlinson, the aging hippie whose own mystical inclinations have brought him into contact with Tula . When the steroid freak kidnaps Tula , Ford is forced to go full commando—night-vision goggles and all—to track down the girl and dispatch the numerous bad guys. As always, White handles the action scenes superbly, writing with both precision and dramatic flair, but he gets inside the heads of his characters, too, not only Ford, the conflicted warrior, but also Tula , who sees herself as Joan of Arc, and even the steroid freak, who just may have an inner life beneath his biceps. A must for series fans.

HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: It took White’s Doc Ford series a while to draw a mainstream audience, but the books started turning up on New York Times best-seller lists several years ago and are likely to remain there for the foreseeable future. A three-week author our will give the charismatic White, a former fishing guide and veteran real-life adventurer, plenty of opportunity to spread the word still further. — Bill Ott BOOKLIST

RWW doesn’t spend all his time at a desk

(photo by Phoebe Webb October 2010)

Did you give Randy a knife at St. Pete Signing?
Do you know who did?

Randy is back from the tour, tired, but says he had a great time meeting people. At Haslam’s Books, St. Pete, a gentleman presented him with a handmade throwing knife. Randy lost the contact information, and he is eager to thank the man. If you are the person, or know the person, please contact me, Steve Grendon at: sanibelflats@yahoo.com

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