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Title: The Mangrove Coast (Prime Crime Mysteries) by Randy Wayne White ISBN: 0-425-17194-9 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.87 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Mangrove Coast
Comment: The best and most believable books of fiction are based on fact. And, the most liked and admirable characters of these books are those that share commonalties with the reader. Then congratulate Randy Wayne White and his new novel, "The Mangrove Coast" as a piece of work that you must read for he has accomplished both. White's stint as the Out There columnist for Outside Magazine for many years allowed him to venture to such exotic locales in Central and South America such as Panama, Nicaragua, and Columbia as well as many other parts of the globe. Now as the author of the Doc Ford series, his time spent in these outposts have allowed him to incorporate these settings into his work in such a way so that you are along for the ride, right there with the characters. From the sulfurous smells of the mangrove coasts to the expatriate third world marinas where you feel like ordering a Polar beer poured over ice. These tropical dramas unfold like storms over the Gulf of Mexico. Building up steam and power until a deluge of lightning, rain and thunder explodes to a climatic conclusion. However, just like the squalls out on the Gulfstream, you never know where these storms are going to head. Do yourself a favor, go ahead and order this book. And you might as well save yourself some time and order Randy's other books as well. You are going to anyway, believe me. So pour yourself a cold one, sit back and prepare to meet a truly interesting group of characters and settings that will come alive in your imagination.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best mysteries I've ever read.
Comment: Why am I sleepy? Don't tell my students but I stayed up all night finishing The Mangrove Coast. One of the most stunning and surprising endings in mystery fiction in my opinion. Fans of the Internet will love this book. I'm still reeling! When marine biologist, Doc Ford, is contacted by the daughter of a dead war buddy, he begins a dark journey that puts him on the trail of an Internet sexual predator. Ford follows the trail (along with his uncle, Tucker Gatrell -- a classic character) to Colombia and then Panama where the reader not only learns a lot about the Panama Canal but is also swept along on a genuinely wild ride full of suspense. Women on-line who have developed warm and maybe even intimate E-mail friendships will never be the same after reading this book. A bookstore friend loaned me a review copy of The Mangrove Coast and she promised me that I wouldn't be able to put it down. She was right! I only hope Mr. White's other books are nearly as good. I suspect I am among the first of many new fans of this wonderful Florida writer -- D.A.Hinkle
Rating: 5
Summary: A Sucker for a Damsel in Distress
Comment: Doc Ford is Marion Ford, Ph.D., a Harrison Ford type marine biologist who lives alone in a stilt cabin on Sanibel Island. Ford is footloose and fancy free until - in each book - his peace and tranquillity is disturbed by a very attractive damsel in distress.
On and off again Ford has been haunted by the death of spook pal Bobby Richardson, who died in an explosion in Cambodia during the post-Vietnam War days. It was a meaningless tragedy, the result of a land mine that destroyed a good friend and left a beautiful wife and a child to fend for themselves back home.
When the grown-up daughter, twenty-five-year-old Amanda, contacts Ford, quoting a letter from her father in which he said Ford would always be there in an emergency, Ford can hardly turn her away. He couldn't anyway, she's a damsel in distress, after all.
Amada's mother, Gail Richardson Calloway, has been deserted by her second husband and gone off to Colombia, apparently but unbelievably of her own free will, with a very unsavory character, Then second husband, Frank Calloway, is found dead soon after her disappearance and now Gail's bank accounts are being methodically depleted. Amanda wants Ford to help search for her mother and to bring her back home.
Ford flies off to Colombia to find Bobby's widow, then tracks and follows her to Panama. Along the way he manages to get into fights to the death with some pretty tough dudes in this action-packed thriller that I simply couldn't get enough off. At times the story seemed a bit of a clichè, but you what, it's been over a week since I finished the book and I'm still thinking about it. That really says something about a story.
Reviewed by Leeann Douglass
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Title: The Heat Islands (A Doc Ford Novel) by Randy Wayne White ISBN: 0312929773 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 15 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Man Who Invented Florida (A Doc Ford Novel) by Randy Wayne White ISBN: 0312953984 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 15 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sanibel Flats (A Doc Ford Novel) by Randy Wayne White ISBN: 0312926022 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 15 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Twelve Mile Limit by Randy Wayne White ISBN: 0425190730 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Everglades by Randy Wayne White ISBN: 0399150587 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 29 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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