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Dark Light By Randy Wayne White ( Berkley )
Release Date: 2007-03-06
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A Category Four hurricane has swept the west coast of Florida, creating havoc, changing lives, and reshaping the ocean bottom. It also uncovers a long-forgotten shipwreck that leads Doc Ford to an old woman in a secluded, worn-down mansion. She tells him the haunting story of a lost love, and of her chance to discover the truth if Ford will salvage the boat-the Dark Light. Intrigued, Ford agrees, and sets in motion a chain of events that will change his life forever. For there are other things in that wreck as well. Things other men want. Things worth killing for. And behind it all is an old woman whose heart remains the greatest mystery of all...
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 Dark/Light by Randy Wayne White
The book arrived in perfect condition, wrapped beautifully to preserve its condition and protect it during shipping. I want to thank the vendor for prompt and courteous service. This purchase arrived within a week of my order!
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good book with some typos in script
I love the Randy Wayne books but was disappointed in several obvious typos in the hardcover G.P. Putnam's book. They were distracting. I wonder if you have had similar comments. Will keep reading as many of this authors books I can find but it is disturbing to find printing errors - have never seen any in the paperback versions of these books.
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Hurricanes and Sunken Treasure ( spirit527 )
This tale had lots of things Florida is famous for like hurricanes and sunken treasure.
I live in Florida and this book brought back lots of memories of Hurricane Charley. RWW accurately describes dealing with the government and insurance companies after a hurricane.
I'd never thought much about WWII and the possibility of shipwrecks from the era. This book kept my interest with its interesting plot.
The bad guy, Bern Heller, was so evil I had to take breaks after reading about him. I read on RWW's website, [...], that he will be in his newest novel.
Doc Ford fans and all people who love Florida will enjoy this book.
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 Hello there..... ( jwilliams@leeuniversity.edu )
It took me forever to get into the story and it never really clicked for me. There is one part in the book where for several pages the author simply fills in the space with specifics of Admiralty Law. The facts pertaining to the specific situation could've been elicted in a much more entertaining manner by use of dialogue or description. There were a lot of typos, a lot of jumping around and the plot did not move forward in a smooth manner. One story line involving two women and a bump on the head were self-serving and unnecessary. A lot of other stuff just didn't make sense condsidering Doc's background as a covert operative and no drama was ever achieved. Wondering where the editor was on this one? Sorry, Doc, I just didn't like it.
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 A bit odd, but fun ( david_w_nicholas )
This time around Doc Ford has a new problem. He's picking up the pieces after the hurricane devastated Florida, and one of his friends (a local fisherman and guide) is in trouble and has lost his boat to an unscrupulous marina owner. He's also met Tomlinson's new girlfriend, and since she is nothing like the rest of the Buddhist monk's women, Ford is intrigued. She's much older, and more sophisticated, and at times you wonder if she's a ghost of some sort. She does things like wander down to the beach during tropical storms. Once she gets introduced to Ford, she hires him and his friends to dive on and recover a wreck that's off the coast, and which she believes contains the bodies of several of her relatives.
The marina owner is really the villain here. The difficulty, such as it is, is that he's not much of a villain, and so you know Ford can handle him, despite the fact that initially he beats up Ford pretty good in one of the opening sequences in the book. White works the plot carefully, and the characters are interesting, but things do take a while to get anywhere, and it's not that suspenseful.
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