Dead of Night (Doc Ford Series #12)

by Randy Wayne White

Overview

New York Times bestselling author “Randy Wayne White spins another terrific Florida tale”* in this thriller of bio-terror and extreme revenge.

It starts with a simple request: check up on the mysteriously reclusive biologist brother of an old friend. But what Doc Ford stumbles upon in the doctor’s secluded island home is a nightmare. He has hanged himself—and his body is host to a rare strain of feeding, breathing parasites. It’s not an accident. Neither is the fact that the flesh eaters are multiplying in the infested Florida waters. A biological catastrophe has arrived. And only Doc Ford can find out why, and stop it from spreading further…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101160701
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/07/2006
Series:	Doc Ford Series , #12
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	509 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Randy Wayne White is the author of seventeen previous Doc Ford novels and four collections of nonfiction. He lives in an old house built on an Indian mound in Pineland, Florida.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“TAUT. GRIPPING. FAST-PACED. TERRIFYING. A PAGE-TURNER. Those words and more describe Dead of Night.”—Omaha World-Herald

“DEAD OF NIGHT IS EVERYTHING YOU LOOK FOR IN A THRILLER AND MORE.”—*The Miami Herald

Editorial Reviews

This time out, Doc Ford must cope with a wicked plot to kill off practically everybody. Marion "Doc" Ford, the marine biologist with the brain of a nerd and the heart of Rambo, begins his 12th (Tampa Burn, 2004, etc.) reluctantly. Frieda Matthews, a friend of long standing, asks Doc to check on her "identical twin" brother, reclusive world-class biologist Jobe Applebee, who's been even more reclusive than usual. To Doc, the invasion of another's privacy amounts to venial sin, yet Frieda has never been one to fret over nothing. So Doc checks-too late, as it turns out. Bad guys have gotten at poor Jobe in indescribable ways. Wherefore? Since Jobe can't tell him-and soon Frieda can't either-Doc must begin his investigation from square one. Almost at once he learns disquieting truths about the life cycle of the Guinea worm and the terrible things that can happen when parasites are pressed to serve as weapons of mass destruction. Are fanatical ecoterrorists at work here? Or something older, like a murderously greedy wolf in another wolf's clothing?Not much story, but Doc's fans are used to that. What might bother a few, though, is a certain lack of engagement, as if even Doc can't take the goings-on all that seriously. First printing of 75,000; author tour

Kirkus Reviews

TAUT. GRIPPING. FAST-PACED. TERRIFYING. A PAGE-TURNER. Those words and more describe Dead of Night.”—Omaha World-Herald

“DEAD OF NIGHT IS EVERYTHING YOU LOOK FOR IN A THRILLER AND MORE.”—*The Miami Herald

From the Publisher