Akron Public Library

"When Doc Ford saves from assassination a controversial former president of the United States who is staying on an island off Florida's west coast, he has no idea what he's just let himself in for. Kal Wilson knows that he has only a short time to live, and he has a full agenda. Just months ago, his wife was killed in a plane crash while carrying medical supplies to Nicaragua - a tragic accident, everyone agreed. Except Wilson is sure it was no accident,...

The skeletons in Doc Ford's closet are on the loose. The marine biologist's former career as an operative in a covert wing of the CIA has a way of breaking in on his quiet life gathering specimens on Florida's Gulf Coast, but this time it's a full-frontal assault. Doc and his hippie pal Tomlinson (his closet isn't skeleton-free either) are enjoying a working vacation on Guava Key when Doc stumbles on a kidnapping-in-progress.

Not AR rated "It started when Doc Ford got the call from his old friend Frieda Matthews - her reclusive biologist brother Jobe wasn't answering the phone. Could Doc check 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, but the consequences of that visit will draw him into the heart of a nightmare. A catastrophe is coming to Florida, and just maybe...

"Marine biologist and former government agent Doc Ford is sure he's beyond the point of being surprised by his longtime pal Tomlinson's madcap tales of his misspent youth. But he's stunned anew when avowed bachelor Tomlinson reveals that as a younger man strapped for cash, he'd unwittingly fathered multiple children via for-profit sperm bank donations. Thanks to genealogy websites, Tomlinson's now-grown offspring have tracked him down, seeking answers...

Trouble is brewing at a Florida trailer park populated by illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America: the park's manager, a steroid freak who dabbles in snuff movies, draws his expendable talent from the immigrant population, but he's managed to offend a drug lord, who isn't pleased that his female customers are turning up dead. Matters are further complicated when an adolescent girl, Tula, rumored to possess mystical ability, sees the manager...

A fictionalized account of an incident in 1994 in which a boat of scuba divers sinks at a dive site off Florida's west coast.

Winter in New York City: Doc Ford is at the Explorers Club. He foils an abduction attempt on a senator, but the companion in her car is snatched-- and buried alive, leading to a series of remakable twists and revelations.

"The remarkable new novel in the Doc Ford series by New York Times-bestselling author Randy Wayne White. Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items-high-profile collectibles-but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written...

An environmental war breaks out in Florida between sports fishermen and commercial fishermen who are despoiling the waters. With friends in both camps Doc Ford, a government agent turned marine biologist, prefers to stay neutral. But a man's death in the explosion of a jetty brings him into it all the same. By the author of The Man Who Invented Florida.

It went against all of Ford's instincts. When his goddaughter, Shay, called, he assumed it was with details of her imminent wedding, but the news was anything but cheerful. She and her bridesmaids had thrown a wild bachelorette party, it seemed, on St. Arc in the Windward Islands - and someone had secretly videotaped it. Now that person was threatening to blow up her future unless she came across with enough money. But don't worry, Doc, she said,...