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Synopsis
Fifteen years after a young girl unearths an ancient gold medallion and then mysteriously dies, Doc Ford investigates strange occurrences at the girl's home and concludes that a dangerous person is determined to find the medallion. 22,500 first printing.
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About the Author
Randy Wayne White is the author of seventeen previous Doc Ford novels and four collections of nonfiction. He lives in an old house built on an Indian mound in Pineland, Florida.
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Of all the writers currently exploiting the Florida mayhem boom, only White can claim to have created a series hero, marine biologist Marion "Doc" Ford, to match Hemingway's memorable outdoorsmen and John D. MacDonald's much-missed Travis McGee. Some of the Ford books have been unfocused, but White's seventh (after 1998's The Mangrove Coast) is one of the strongest, rich with not only evocative images ("I spooked a school of redfish that angled away as a herd, pushing an acre of waking water") but also with an unusually deep cast of characters. Ford himself is in top form, quickly convincing readers that he cares as much about his real job (capturing snook for a lab working to improve the breed) as he does about solving a mysteryDin this case, why the grave of a 15-year-old girl who had an uncanny ability to find things has been desecrated. Somebody is after a 400-year-old gold medallion that she unearthed, a relic of the Calusa Indians. Besides Ford's scene-stealing druggy sidekick, Tomlinson, there are some very interesting female characters: the dead girl herself, with whom Ford turns out to have a strange connection; her gutsy mother, a tough waitress working to keep her daughter's memory alive and unsullied; a young archeologist and an older local woman who take Ford's mind off his former lover. Even the obvious villains, a wealthy and politically powerful father-and-son team, are saved from being clich s by some original touches. But the real star is the seascape of Florida, something that FordDand WhiteDknow intimately. National tour. (June)
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Key Largo bartender Della Copeland is another of that seemingly inexhaustible supply of strong-yet-vulnerable females who can’t survive without the help of Dr. Marion Ford. Fifteen years after her daughter Dorothy dug up a mysterious gold medallion on Marco Island and started to have even more mysterious visions before she was found hanging from a tree, Della’s home has been ransacked by somebody looking for the medallion—or whatever other talismans he can lay his hands on. Is the would-be thief Ivan Bauerstock, the magnate who owns half of Marco Island? Teddy Bauerstock, the dead-eyed charmer his old man’s grooming for the state senate and points north? Bauerstock contractor Frank Rossi, whose own son Tony bids fair to follow in his father’s slimy footsteps? A savior-for-hire who seems to worship at the shrine of Travis McGee can’t go wrong assuming everybody on the horizon is out to make trouble for the ladies, and standing ready to repel the monstrous males one by one. And that's just what Doc Ford, who’d have you believe he’d rather be supplying marine specimens to the Mote Marine Laboratory than mixing it up with the bad guys, does—with results more stimulating to the adrenal glands than the cerebral cortex. Memo to more sensitive guys: the suggestion that Dorothy may be Doc’s repeatedly reincarnated astral soulmate, tragically dead less than 20 short years before they were to meet, should help you decide whether Doc’s seventh adventure (The Mangrove Coast, 1998, etc.) is for you -- Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Based on a true story, the latest Doc Ford adventure mixes archaeology, mysticism, and some old-fashioned head-banging. In the late 1960s, a young boy discovered a valuable ancient Indian artifact off Florida's Gulf Coast; later, the boy killed himself. White uses that incident in his story of a girl with spiritual powers who also finds an ancient medallion and appears to hang herself. Now it's 15 years later, and the girl's grave has been dug up, apparently by someone in search of the medallion. Marine biologist Ford and his hippie pal Tomlinson agree to help the girl's mother put her daughter to rest. The trail leads deep into the past--the history of the Calusa Indians--and equally deep into an all-too-contemporary saga of greed and psychosis. Former CIA agent Ford is a reluctant warrior who, once engaged, goes after the bad guys with a lethal mix of tradecraft and righteous indignation. Both are cranked into overdrive in this satisfying, straight-ahead thriller, nicely overlaid with the reverberations of prehistory. Bill Ott
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Government agent-turned-marine biologist Doc Ford sails an endless sea of questions when he agrees to investigate a death from the past. Years ago, off Florida's Gulf Coast, a teenaged girl found an ancient gold medallion. Then, she began having nightmares. Then she was found hanging from a tree.Now, years later, the girl's mother is being terrorized with break-ins, phone calls with no one there--and her daughter's grave has been dug up. Somebody wants that medallion.The search for answers will lead Doc through a shadowy world of ancient ritual and modern corruption, to an evil that was born in the past--but lives in the present. Seller Inventory # 00109316068
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