Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. Its dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him. After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. But spending each day watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for his beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the locals over a cold beer lulled him into letting his guard down. Then Rafe Hollins appeared. How could he refuse his old friend's request—even if it would put him back on the firing line? Even if it would change forever the life he'd built here on Sanibel Island?
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“A major new talent…[This book] hits the ground running…A virtually perfect piece of work. He’s the best new writer we’ve encountered since Carl Hiassen. White’s stylish narrative never falters. This is a book that’s got everything and then some.”
— Denver Post
“Dick Hill is fully believable as he delivers the numerous Latin accents, and he really puts out the character of Ford’s confidant. The story…[is] definitely worth listening to.”
— AudioFile“[The] first appearance of intelligent, likable Doc Ford will leave readers hoping to see him again.”
— Publishers Weekly“A promising debut from another Floridian who can turn a phrase.”
— BooklistDick Hill is fully believable as he delivers the numerous Latin accents, and he really puts out the character of Ford's confidant. The story…[is] definitely worth listening to.
— AudioFileRandy Wayne White has written twenty-five books in the Doc Ford series and several novels in the Hannah Smith series as well as nonfiction. Several of the Doc Ford novels have been New York Times bestsellers. Four collections of his columns for Outside magazine have been published elsewhere. In 2002, a one-hour documentary film called The Gift of the Game, about his trip to Cuba to find the remnants of the Little League teams founded by Ernest Hemingway in the days before Castro, won the “Best of the Fest” award from the 2002 Woods Hole Film Festival and then was broadcast by PBS in 2003. A veteran fishing guide who at one time had his own local PBS show, he lives in an old house on an Indian mound in Pineland, Florida.
Laural Merlington is an audiobook narrator with over two hundred titles to her credit and a winner of multiple Earphones Awards. An Audie Award nominee, she has also directed over one hundred audiobooks. She has performed and directed for thirty years in theaters throughout the country. In addition to her extensive theater and voice-over work, she teaches college in her home state of Michigan.