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Dead Silence (Doc Ford Novels) |  | Author: Randy Wayne White
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1ST
Pages: 368
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0399155406
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399155406
ASIN: 0399155406
Publication Date: March 10, 2009
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Product Description
Imagine the worst that can happen. Then imagine again. The stunning new Doc Ford novel by the New York Timesbestselling author.
Winter in New York City: Amid sleet and snow, Doc Ford is at the Explorers Club with his new friend, former (and maybe current) British agent Sir James Montbard, researching a jungle expedition and awaiting the arrival of an attractive U.S. senator with whom Ford has become more than friendly. Her car pulls up, she starts to get outand the unthinkable happens: an abduction attempt right before Fords eyes. Ford engages, managing to save the senator, but the companion in her car is not so lucky. A fourteen- year-old Minnesota boy, in New York as the prize for an essay-writing contest, he is snatched and vanishesdead, authorities fear, until they receive the kidnappers ultimatum.
Ford goes on the hunt, an odyssey that brings him first to Long Island, then to Florida, but if what happened before was unthinkable, its nothing compared with what he discovers. The boys captors have a definite agenda, and to make sure he isnt rescued before their thirty-six-hour deadline is up, theyve put him someplace theyre sure no one will find him: theyve buried him alive.
But theres something about the boy his captors do not know. He has a past, as do Doc Ford and many of the other key players in these extraordinary events. And before those thirty-six hours are over, all those pasts will catch up to the present with catastrophic results.
Randy Wayne Whites novels have always won praise for their remarkable imagination, intrigue, and some of the best characters in suspense fiction. Nothing, however, will prepare his readers for the remarkable twists and revelations of Dead Silence.
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 New to author - enjoyed book September 1, 2010
K. Young (Westminster, CO)
I picked up this book at a used book sale and had never read anything by Randy Wayne White before. Doc Ford is definitely "macho", but as a female reader I really did enjoy this book. It is well written and I was plesantly surprised.
 Disappointing????? Not to this new reader of the series. August 4, 2010
Neal C. Reynolds (Indianapolis, Indiana)
I've read the first two and the two most recent books in the series and darn it, enjoyed all of them with no feeling of disappointment. I did find this especially suspenseful with the Native American teen one of the most compelling I've yet come across in the series. Also enjoyable to me was the contrast between to two bad guys. White isn't always gentle with his characters and in this installment, there's one heartg wrenching loss and one about which the reader will have mixed emotions. Others do suffer giving this very dark tones, but through it all, Doc Ford emerges as one of the most compelling characters in modern crime fiction.
A great read for Floridians July 26, 2010
msfitz2u
I have read every one of Randy Wayne White's books and this was the next one in line on my list. I was going on vacation and thought I would listen to it in the car. Randy never lets me down. I am always totally into his novels. I didn't even wreck while listening intently. :)
 Disappointing June 12, 2010
Orchid9389 (PA)
I love the Doc Ford novels. Randy Wayne White got me with his first one...but the later ones and especially this one have lost something. They are too far removed from the Sanibel Island/Florida venue and all the people there. They have become too much like your typical murder mystery and have left me disappointed. Usually I just can't put his books down, but this one was an effort to continue reading. Please, Randy, get back to Sanibel and Florida and all the great people there!
A Feast that will hold them until his next work June 9, 2010
Bookreporter.com (New York, New York)
If you haven't sampled any of Randy Wayne White's books, you're missing something good. There are many riches to be plumbed from these titles. For our present purposes, let us limit our discussion to Marion "Doc" Ford, the former NSA agent and current Sanibel Island marine biologist. Ford's past work left him with a skill set that he keeps sharpened and at the ready, sometimes voluntarily, sometimes not so much. Both circumstances are presented in DEAD SILENCE.
The novel opens with Ford committing an act of revenge against Bern Heller, a rapist and murderer who has been released from prison pending a new trial. His act of rough justice precedes a trip to New York, which is to function as an alibi. Indeed, he establishes his presence in Manhattan with a bang when he thwarts the kidnapping of a United States Senator who was to be his dinner companion for the evening. The rescue is not entirely successful, though, as the Senator was accompanied by Will Chaser, a 14-year-old boy who was the winner of an essay-writing contest and whose prize --- a trip to New York --- is turning out to be much more than he had bargained for. The kidnappers merely switch gears and hold the teen instead of the Senator for ransom. Ford feels at least partially responsible and jumps in to aid in the search for Chaser, who the kidnappers have buried at an unknown location.
What I have given you so far would be more than enough to get a story rolling along nicely, with that invisible plot clock ticking merrily away on every page. White, however, slowly unravels a couple of plot undercurrents that are nothing less than fascinating. For one, DEAD SILENCE occurs at some undetermined point in the very near future, shortly after the death of Fidel Castro. U.S. Intelligence has acquired a literal treasure trove of Castro's possessions, which include everything from jewels to art treasures to collectibles to documents. It is jewels and documents that the kidnappers would be wanting, the latter in particular since they reveal, among other things, the identity of the traitor whose timely revelations to Castro betrayed the Bay of Pigs invasion. The abductors are two psychopaths who are well-schooled in the techniques of forced interrogation and who enjoy using them to the utmost. There is no doubt that they will kill their captive if their demands are not met; it is likely, in fact, that they will murder him in any event.
Chaser, however, has a bit going for him as well. An American Indian whose short life has been full of troubles, he does not color within the lines, a behavioral inclination that holds him in good stead when dealing with his captors. In short, they have their hands full, and then some. Ford also has his hands full. His search for Chaser inadvertently reopens the mysterious disappearance of a young woman and leads back to the doorstep of his Sanibel Island neighbor, the eccentric and enigmatic Tomlinson, who may have a secondary tie to Chaser's kidnapping as well. And while Ford is searching for Chaser's burial location in New York, the body of Heller has washed up on shore down in Florida --- and Doc Ford is at the top of the suspect list. Ford must clear his own name of a crime for which he is guilty, while saving the life of an innocent who, as we learn, is anything but an angel. Ford isn't entirely successful by story's end, but he doesn't do badly, either.
Randy Wayne White is a Sanibel Island resident, and knows his terrain both inside and outside Florida quite well. One gets the sense that Doc Ford is what White would be if he could get away with it (or, for that matter, maybe he really does get away with it). While DEAD SILENCE stands quite well on its own, references within to what has gone before will send new readers running to White's backlist, a feast that will hold them until his next work.
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