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Tampa Burn By Randy Wayne White ( Berkley )
Release Date: 2005-03-01
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Product 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.
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Glad to get another Doc Ford novel, BUT ( oldngray )
I'm a big fan of RWW and Doc Ford. In this one, Doc's son has been snatched by a Central American wacko who is disfigured and wants the kid's face for his own! Carefully crafted and plotted as usual, but somehow I didn't get the sense of urgency from Doc that I expected. Great read overall, though, and I'm looking forward to the next one. When will they get smart and start making movies out of these novels? Wonder who will get to play Doc? Not Tom Cruise, I hope ....
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 Good Back up and It could be Magic ( mccaco )
I read White when Child, Connelly, Crais and Demille have nothing new. He is a good back up for those of us who like low brow entertainment. He ranks the lowest among my regulars because his hero, Doc Ford, seems to have no sense of humor and is presented as a politically correct James Bond. Probably not like the real Doc Ford at all when you think about it.
Still, the pace is acceptable except for times when Doc goes into self-psychotherapy mode, and the characters ususally interesting. One thing that White has heads and shoulders above others is his eye for Florida. At one point he describes someone as something like nutty in a state of nuts and does that ever capture it. At the same time, there is a segment of the book in which the hero is in the Tampa area chasing the bad guy and White's descriptions of the area are magical.
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 Last Doc Ford book I'll ever read ( magnuspi )
I have read this entire Doc Ford series before this book. I suggest one of the first few for a good read. As the series moves on this supposed smart man gets dumber and more feable. His mistakes are telegraphed. Also he doesn't seem to age. As I figure it Doc would be in his early 60's dating a 30 something is just weird. I enjoyed the eatlier books in this series and more for the secondary players. Doc is just not a likeable fellow.
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Enjoyable
THis is a part of the Doc Ford series, a character created by Randy Wayne White. An ex-special agent turned marine biologist that now lives in the nicest part (if you enjoy quiteness) of Florida. This, as his other books are easy and enjoyble to read with an interesting and evolving plot. You will particuarly enjoy it more if you have a special interest about Florida as his gives all sorts of trivia and descriptions.
Ifm, though, you have not read any previous books by White I would suggest if you start with one of the earlier stories of Doc Ford as the character is slowly build through out White's novels.
I would recommend it as a vacation read.
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 At the top of his game ( david_w_nicholas )
Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford series started out rather modestly about a dozen years ago. Marion "Doc" Ford is a sort of a cross between Travis McGee and Jacques Cousteau, a marine biologist with a murky past who lives in a house on stilts in the harbor of an island off of Florida's West coast. Ford is the main character and narrator of a series of novels in which he deals with various bad people, loves various women, and enjoys long, interesting conversations with his friend Tomlinson, and weird unrecycled hippy who has one of the strangest personalities in current mystery fiction. Tomlinson's into almost every new fad, knows more than he should about a lot of things no one should be involved in, and is a Buddhist monk to boot.
As the series has progressed, we've learned more and more about Doc and especially about his past. At first all we knew was that he'd worked for some murky government agency, and that he'd sort of retired. Lately, though, his adventures have led to us learning a great deal more about what he did in his youth, and how it's affected him in the years since. I won't tell you what we've learned, and I'll second other reviewers' recommendations: you really ought to read the books in sequence, it's better if it unfolds slowly.
The current book involves Ford being contacted by a former lover from Central America, and informed that the boy they'd had together has been kidnapped. The boy is now a teenager, and Ford and he have developed a long-distance relationship, so Ford is more than a bit upset. He goes on the warpath, intent on rescuing his son.
This is a great novel, interesting in its characters and setting. The author introduced at least two new characters who will presumably return in later books, and also left plot threads open for at least two sequels. This is a truly satisfying entry into the series, and I would recommend it to all Doc Ford fans. Like I said, if you haven't read one before, though start with the first.
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