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Dead of Night By Randy Wayne White ( G. P. Putnam's Sons )
Release Date: 2005-03-17
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List Price: $24.95
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Product Description
Later, my conscience would play the inevitable game of "What if . . ." What if I had stopped by Jobe's home on Friday morning instead of Sunday night? What if I hadn't interrupted the two people who were alternately interrogating and beating him? Would he have lived? Or would he have died? And what would have happened then?
It started when Doc Ford got a call from his old friend Frieda Matthews; her reclusive biologist brother, Jobe, wasn't answering the phone-could Doc check up on him? Ford can't think of a reason not to, but soon he will think of a hundred. Not only will it be one of the worst scenes he has ever encountered, the consequences will draw him into the heart of a nightmare. A catastrophe is coming to Florida, and just maybe there is something Ford can do about it-but he doesn't know how or where or when . . . or even if he is already too late.
Brimming with the remarkable prose and rich atmosphere that have won White so many fans already, and featuring some of the best characters in suspense fiction today, Dead of Night is White's biggest thriller yet.
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 Biological Terrorism Reality ( pyoung8 )
One of White's best novels. Doc is asked to visit a brother of a friend. He arrives to find the brother being beaten by two Russians. He chases the bad guys and returns to find the brother has hung himself and worms are crawling out of his body. The Guinea Worms are not found in Florida. Doc is called in on the case by his Black OPS boss. The country suspects Terrorism. Doc's friend is murdered and he, Tomlinson, and his son are on the case. In a freaky mishap, Tomlinson is attacked by a fish not found in Florida waters. The brother genius, his sister, a missing computer, and odd varieties of animals not found in Florida connects the Russians. Doc puts himself as bait. It works. While Tomlinson is on the operating table, Doc's heart stops. He's dead until resuciated by the woman Russian. The ending is in my opinion the greatest ever. The ending gives the real motive of biological terrorism. It isn't about god and country, it's all about money and greed."
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Dead of Night
I THOUGHT THE BOOK WAS GREAT, GREAT CHARACTER MIX. A THRILLER AT THE TURN OF EVERY PAGE. LOVED THE 2 RUSSIANS WHAT CHARACTERS
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Doc Ford vs. various evil species ( david_w_nicholas )
We've been following Doc Ford, Randy Wayne White's spy-turned-marine-biologist, for some years now. White started out the series with the main character mainly having a persona as a scientist, and slowly allowed him to morph into this really tough guy who wears thick glasses, but can really fight and is pretty cold-blooded too.
The current entry has one of Ford's friends asking him to look in on her brother. The brother lives in an isolated cabin and hasn't answered the phone in several days. When Ford gets there, he discovers the brother tied to a chair, being tortured by a couple of people. Ford intervenes, of course, and that starts off the festivities.
It turns out that someone's introducing predatory, particularly deadly, tropical species into Southern Florida from other parts of the world. If this became public, the land values in the area would plummet. Ford must weave his way through a series of bad characters (including a homicidal ex-Russian spy who's also a pretty predatory female) and figure out a way to stop things before they get way out of hand.
Tomlinson's involved again, also, along with Ford's son, his half-sister, and other familiar characters. The book's in keeping with the rest of the series, and fun.
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 I've read better ( petergms )
I am certainly a fan of this genre of novel; however I have found Dark of Night so full of superfluous material, which has no bearing on the plot itself, that I am tempted to wonder if Mr. White is being paid by the word by his publisher for his output.
I know he can do better than this.
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