Night Vision (Doc Ford Series #18)

by Randy Wayne White

Overview

Doc Ford is on a collision course with death in this extraordinary New York Times bestseller from Randy Wayne White.

The Red Citrus trailer park is inhabited mostly by illegal laborers. But the steroid-powered park manager and his grotesquely muscular girlfriend figure that selling the park to developers would be easy money—and they're ready to do whatever it takes to drive the residents out.
 
The problem is a young girl who the laborers believe talks to God. The manager doesn’t know if she's valuable or a liability. But when the girl witnesses him dumping a corpse into a lake, there is one thing he knows for certain: He's got to shut her up permanently.

The girl's only hope for survival: marine biologist Doc Ford, who must search through an underground, invisible nation...and hope he reaches her in time. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101486399
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/22/2011
Series:	Doc Ford Series , #18
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	85,014
File size:	485 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for Deep Shadow:

"A heart-stopping, fast-paced thriller that's one of the best Doc Ford novels yet."
-Associated Press

"Outstanding...a nail-biter that's virtually impossible to put down."
-Publishers Weekly

Editorial Reviews

In White's intelligent, fast-paced 18th Doc Ford thriller (after Deep Shadow), Doc's hipster friend, Tomlinson, persuades Doc to help an extraordinary 13-year-old girl, Tula Choimha, recently arrived at a Florida trailer park from Guatemala. Tula, who speaks with God and whose patron saint is Joan of Arc, is determined to find her mother and brother, who came to America months earlier but have disappeared. People who get to know Tula believe she is special, blessed, even a saint—except for the sleazy, steroid-infused trailer park landlord, Harris Squires. Fearful that the discovery of some human remains inside an alligator carcass will implicate him in a crime witnessed by Tula, the paranoid Harris kidnaps Tula and takes off. Doc sets out to rescue Tula, but standing in his way is a menacing gangbanger, Victorino, and Harris's vicious girlfriend, Frankie. White balances the sordid criminal activities with plenty of intriguing wildlife lore. The bond that Tula forms with her captor adds poignancy. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Night Vision

“Intelligent, fast-paced...White balances the sordid criminal activities with plenty of intriguing wildlife lore. The bond that Tula forms with her captor adds poignancy.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“White draws on his strength at putting Doc and his hippie friend, Tomlinson, into tense situations that require his skill at dealing with danger....Harris and Frankie may be White’s most believable—and frightening—villains.”—South Florida Sun-Sentinel
 
“This is a well-written, suspenseful tale that introduces us to some irresistible new characters.”—Associated Press
 
“As always, White handles the action scenes superbly, writing with both precision and dramatic fl air...A must for series fans.”—Booklist
 
“Authentic bad guys juxtaposed with the innocent Tula create a story Doc Ford fans and adventure readers will enjoy.”—Library Journal
 
“White delivers his patented slam-bang action and southwest Florida atmosphere, and Ford is still the kind of guy who can handle half a dozen heavily armed gangbangers, figure out a work-around for doing a bootlegger’s turn in a car with antilock brakes—and pick up a hot biologist at an alligator autopsy and romance her until she hollers for mercy.”—St. Petersburg Times

From the Publisher

The 18th Doc Ford thriller (after Deep Shadow) mixes street-gang grittiness with eerie spirituality as a 13-year-old Guatemalan child searches for relatives in Florida. The community of undocumented Guatemalans is vulnerable, fearful of authorities. The manager of the trailer park where the immigrants live is a bodybuilder, manufacturing illegal steroids and using the women in porn films, taking advantage of their silence. He is aided by his girlfriend and a local gang. Ford, a marine biologist by day, CIA-trained troubleshooter at other times, and his aging hippie friend, Tomlinson, arrive at the trailer park to meet young Tula just as an alligator snatches a resident. A typical Doc Ford scene unfolds, with Ford wrestling the alligator, infuriating the landlord, and unleashing more trouble when a human bone is found in the gator. Tula's mysticism injects spirituality into the story, adding an extra dimension to the plot.Verdict Explicit depictions of steroid use and gang behavior supply the action in a slightly predictable plot. Authentic bad guys juxtaposed with the innocent Tula create a story Doc Ford fans and adventure readers will enjoy. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/10; national tour.]—Sally Bickley, Del Mar Coll. Lib., Corpus Christi, TX

Library Journal

White’s eighteenth Doc Ford mystery involves Latino gangs, drugs, human trafficking, and violence—all coming up against a latter-day Joan of Arc. But then the quietly violent Doc Ford has to come to her rescue. George Guidall portrays Doc appropriately as a macho softie and adopts a bad-ass persona with perfect Latin accents to render the gangbangers. Guidall moves the action along while keeping the heroine above the fray. His pacing and timing are, as always, expertly matched to the author’s narrative style. For followers of Doc Ford and lovers of the growing body of mysteries set in Florida. M.C. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

MAY 2011 - AudioFile