The Heat Islands

Name: The Heat Islands
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Randy Wayne White
ISBN: 9781400186693

Author: Randy Wayne White

Series: Doc Ford #2

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 10 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/16/2010

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Marine biologist and former secret operative Doc Ford is lazily poling his skiff along Southwest Florida's flat copper sea in search of sea anemones when he runs into the body of the most hated man on Sanibel Island—Marvin Rios.

And when the Island's simplest and sweetest resident is arrested for the murder, Doc heads straight into the heart of the sunshine state's dark side—to save his friend from being framed, and to save Sanibel Island from a rising tide of land-grab schemes, blood money, and violence.

About Randy Wayne White

Randy Wayne White is the author of the popular Doc Ford novels and the nonfiction collections Batfishing in the Rainforest, The Sharks of Lake Nicaragua, Last Flight Out, and An American Traveler. A onetime veteran fishing guide, he lives in an old house built on an Indian mound and spends much of his free time windsurfing, playing baseball, and hanging out at Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar and Grille on Sanibel Island, Florida.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer

Doc Ford is an interesting main character. He is intelligent,intuitive, and has a dark streak that he keeps pretty well hidden. He has an interesting array of friends that make the story entertaining and keep the quirky Florida image going. There was a lot going on in this story and at the end I had......more

Goodreads review by Glen

This second book in the Doc Ford series is very good, but the stakes are somewhat lower than in many of the later novels. Doc's minding his own business, flirting with a professional tennis player, when the most hated man in the area is killed. The man's brother in law, probably the second most hated......more