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Title: Twelve Mile Limit by Randy Wayne White ISBN: 0-425-19073-0 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't start this book near bedtime!
Comment: Apparently Randy Wayne White is incapable of writing a bad book, richly demonstrated by the arrival of Twelve Mile Limit. White is a licensed boat captain with thirteen years experience as a fishing guide, and it shows; only someone with an intimate knowledge and love of the water could have penned this compelling story. Based on a true event, Twelve Mile Limit opens with the dramatic rescue by helicopter of Amelia Gardener, the only known survivor of a disastrous diving expedition. Her three companions from the ill-fated excursion to explore an offshore diving wreck disappear without a trace when their boat sinks, despite the fact that all of them were wearing inflated life vests over wet suits. Among the missing is Janet Mueller, Doc Ford's friend who assists him with his marine specimens business. The close-knit Dinkin's Bay Marina family joins the Coast Guard in an exhaustive, ultimately futile search. When dark rumors begin to circulate, Doc agrees to assist Amelia in her efforts to clear her missing friends' names. Using resources from his shadowy, clandestine past as a secret government operative, Ford uncovers a chilling trail which leads him into a harrowing rescue attempt in the dangerous jungles of Colombia.
White's trademark use of brilliant descriptions of the waters off south Florida, and the vivid picture he creates of Colombia reflect his personal passion for these places. This book stands alone as a powerful adventure, as the reader experiences the chilling isolation of being lost and adrift in a windswept sea on a black, moonless night, and a terror-ridden descent into the hellish Colombian jungles infested with unimaginable dangers. But readers who have followed Doc Ford's adventures (this is the ninth in this popular series) are rewarded with a deepening knowledge of the searing past which haunts Doc. A wonderful summer read-or any time of the year-this book should come attached with a warning notice of the powerfully addictive effects of White's writing. Read one, and you will begin frantically searching out all of his other titles. It's worth it.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Outstanding Entry in the Series
Comment: Randy Wayne White returns to good form with this story from the Doc Ford series. I was somewhat disappointed by last year's Shark River and did not believe that it lived up the the quality of past books. Twelve Mile Limit really delivers though. Once I started, I couldn't put it down. White acheives a good balance of education, philosophy, introspection and action. The author seems to have taken the issues of the book to heart. He is right on in identifying where the real risks to America lie. I can't wait until the next Doc Ford novel. Let's hope the series is at least as long as Travis McGee.
Rating: 5
Summary: Latest novel in the Doc Ford series
Comment: Dr. Marion "Doc" Ford is a marine biologist who lives in a house on stilts, off the west coast of Florida, and makes a living harvesting and supplying labs and schools with ocean wildlife local to the area. However, he has a dark past, having worked as one of the "Negotiators," a shadowy organization that works for the U.S. Government. The Negotiators have a talk with people who are being unreasonable, and make them see the error of their ways. Typically, the individual involved is an international drug kingpin who won't see the error of his ways and donate all of his loot to charity, and the solution is killing him. Ford has left all of that behind because it bothered his conscience.
In this novel, a close friend and employee of Ford has been lost at sea. One of the three people on the boat with her was rescued, and provides an account of what happened, but no matter how hard the Coast Guard looks, the other three companions aren't found. When Ford is approached by the survivor, and told that there was a boat that perhaps picked up the other survivors, he uses his connections with people in the government to investigate, and dives into an adventure to rescue his friend.
I enjoyed this book, and especially enjoy the way the author makes things interesting and suspenseful without having a blazing shootout every thirty pages (though those are fun, too). Ford is almost disdainful of guns, and those who use them, but not stupid enough to walk into a gunfight carrying a knife or something. There's also a nice subplot involving an environmentalist vs. fisherman battle that sounds so real and familiar that it must either be true or based on truth. I really enjoyed this book.
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Title: Shark River by Randy Wayne White ISBN: 0425185214 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 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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Title: Ten Thousand Islands by Randy Wayne White ISBN: 0425180433 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: North of Havana by Randy Wayne White ISBN: 042516294X Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Mangrove Coast by Randy Wayne White ISBN: 0425171949 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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