Captiva: A Doc Ford Novel (1996)
Randy Wayne White played in the Senior Baseball League, writes a column for Outside magazine & some terrific fishing stories (Batfishing in the Rain Forest: Strange Tales of Travel & Fishing) and is the author of the outstanding Doc Ford novels. Not bad...
Doc Ford is a marine biologist who formerly held a somewhat shadowy position in US Intelligence. This installment of the series finds Doc & his burn-out hippie friend Tomlinson investigating the death of explosion victim Jimmy Darroux. This leads them to Jimmy's delectable widow Hannah and a feud between sport fisherman and net fishermen over a pending netting ban. As the violence escalates, noone is safe & Doc's moral compunctions are challenged and then shattered.
If you haven't discovered this great writer & wonderful series yet,
I urge you to give them a read. The cover blurbs comparing him to
John D. MacDonald, Carl Hiassen & Elmore Leonard are well deserved.
(Reviewed:)
Grade: (A)
