Deep Blue (Doc Ford Series #23)

by Randy Wayne White

Overview

Doc Ford has long lived a double life. But in this electrifying New York Times bestselling novel, it may finally have caught up to him...
 
On a moonless night on Sanibel Island, Florida, marine biologist Marion “Doc” Ford carefully watches a video of a hooded man executing three hostages. The man is an American working with ISIS, and in the next few days, it’ll be Ford’s job, as part of his shadowy second life, to make sure the man never kills anybody else again.

But a lot can go wrong in a few days, and Ford has no way of knowing that not only will the operation prove to be a lot more complicated than he has anticipated, but that he’ll end up bringing those complications back with him to the small community of boaters, guides, lovers, and friends in Dinkin’s Bay, where he’s long made his home.

Someone has taken Ford’s actions very personally, and now no one there is safe—least of all, Ford himself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425280256
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/07/2017
Series:	Doc Ford Series , #23
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 7.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Randy Wayne White is the author of the Doc Ford novels, the Hannah Smith novels, and four collections of nonfiction. He lives on Sanibel Island, Florida, where he was a light-tackle fishing guide for many years, and spends much of his free time windsurfing, playing baseball, and hanging out at Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille.

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Editorial Reviews

Praise for Deep Blue

“[A] high-tech, grand-scale adventure. White makes particularly good use of [the] always-potent crime-fiction theme—the knight errant who inadvertently brings trouble home to those he loves....This twenty-third Doc Ford novel will quickly assume its reserved seat on the New York Times and most other best-seller lists.”—Booklist (starred review)

“Lively characters, enough action for three summer blockbusters, and plenty of plot twists make this a great addition to the bestselling series.”—Publishers Weekly

“As with every Doc Ford story, the writing is tight and the story fast-paced....[Fans of] thriller hero's from James Bond to Jason Bourne will find a lot to like.”—Associated Press
 
“A trip to the Gulf Coast with Doc Ford is never dull...and White doesn’t skimp on the action....This marine biologist increasingly lets his clandestine life as a government operative take him away from his quiet Sanibel Island home [and White] continues to find fresh ways to bring Ford into the chaos of world politics.” —South Florida Sun-Sentinel

“White continues to impress with detail and description of the high-tech marvels that have become a part of everyman’s life....Deep Blue is the author at his best. You will want to say ‘He is back,’ but he never left.”—The Florida Times-Union

From the Publisher

01/25/2016
White’s fast-paced 23rd Doc Ford novel (after 2015’s Cuba Straits) pits the Florida wet work specialist against David Abdel Cashmere, a Chicagoan turned terrorist who features as the executioner of three hostages in several videos. Ford travels to the Yucatan, where his target is staying at a seaside resort, but things don’t go as planned. He finds his facilitator, known only as K.A.T., with one of Cashmere’s supposed victims, Winslow Shepherd, in an eighth-floor hotel room. When Ford confronts the pair, they both fall from the room’s balcony, and Ford is forced to flee back home to Sanibel Island, Fla. Cutting-edge drones appear on the island, which are controlled, he soon discovers, by Winslow’s son, Julian (aka the Black Knight of the Internet). Ford rallies his allies, chief among them Tomlinson, his “boat-bum hipster” sidekick with ESP powers, and Brazilian Vargas Diemer, a wealthy jet-setter of questionable loyalty. Lively characters, enough action for three summer blockbusters, and plenty of plot twists make this a great addition to the bestselling series. Agent: Esther Newberg, ICM. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

11/01/2015
In this 23rd Doc Ford novel by New York Times best-selling author White, named a Florida Literary Legend by the Florida Heritage Society, chewed-up dolphins are washing ashore at Sanibel Island, and tourists are staying away in droves, suspecting some awful creature of the deep. But Doc believes the threat is human.

Library Journal

The masterful George Guidall, among the most accomplished of audiobook performers, narrates White’s twenty-third Doc Ford novel. Ford is a marine biologist and occasional assassin for the federal government (mostly). White’s books focus on technological marvels and the eccentric and amorous residents of the Florida island marina that Ford calls home. Guidall’s performance is, as always, unpretentious and precise. His pronunciation is clear. His characters come to life. Their accents are detectable without being distracting. At the same time, he sounds like your favorite uncle telling a story off-the-cuff. There are sharks, stakeouts, fancy boats, and surprises. A good thriller, well delivered. F.C. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2016 - AudioFile

2016-01-10
Marine biologist Marion D. Ford interrupts his endless partying at Sanibel Island long enough to get involved in another round of international counterterrorism. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to eliminate David Abdel Cashmere, failed Chicago actor-turned-homegrown terrorist, whom Doc Ford watches on a slickly edited video executing three hostages. So Ford bids farewell to his beloved Sanibel—where some secret Santa has recently taken to showering the locals with $100 bills—packs his bags for Mexico, and quickly discovers that it's a tougher job than he thought. One complication is that his encounter with Cashmere, aka Máximo Al-Amerikee, while his target is parasailing doesn't go exactly as planned. Another is that Ford's local contact, a woman he knows only as KAT, seems to be sleeping with the enemy. Still another is that the enemy is Winslow Shepherd, an Australian math professor Cashmere's supposed to have beheaded. But the biggest of all is that Ford's activities have brought him to the attention of Shepherd's son, a computer prodigy who changed his name from Julian Caesar Winslow Shepherd to Julian Solo to show what he thinks of his father. Now Julian, who's recently lost two drone aircraft in the waters off Sanibel, is determined to make Ford's life miserable, along with the lives of all his friends. A ruthless hacker can easily find ways to bring Dr. Ava Lindstrom, the veterinarian who saved the life of Ford's nameless dog after he went diving after one of those drones, close to suicide, and it's obvious that Ford and his hipster friend Tomlinson will have to return to Mexico in response to Julian's latest demands—and in hopes of neutralizing him more completely than Ford managed to do with Cashmere during his last visit. The front-loading of the major surprises makes this adventure middling among Doc Ford's recent Bond-like encounters with villains with political agendas (Cuba Straits, 2015, etc.).

Kirkus Reviews