Shark River
Doc Ford: Book #8
- By: Randy Wayne White
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Description
Randy Wayne White is a journalist, veteran fishing guide, and author of several nonfiction collections. He also creates superb, best-selling suspense fiction. His novels have received the highest praise from Library Journal and Booklist, and from authors like Carl Hiassen, who says, "Randy Wayne White takes us places that no other Florida mystery writer could hope to find." Marine biologist Doc Ford is spending two easy weeks on luxurious Guava Key compiling data. But when two young women at the resort are attacked, Doc comes to their rescue. In an instant, he is pulled into an international plan of revenge that becomes more deadly with each passing hour. Now, Doc isn’t counting fish--he’s adding up his chances for survival. Shark River’s eye-popping chases, eccentric characters, and taut suspense are all seasoned with a rich, dark humor that heightens the irony of Doc’s predicament. From its astonishing first sentence to the final punchline, this book is sure to grab every listener in its powerful grip.
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Doc Ford Series

Sanibel Flats
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. Its dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him. After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. But spending each day watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for... Read more »
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The Heat Islands
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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The Man Who Invented Florida
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 12 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
When solitary marine biologist Doc Ford focused his telescope on the woman in the white boat, he didn't know his life was about to be capsized: that his conniving uncle Tucker Gatrell would discover the Fountain of Youth, that the National Enquirer would write about it, and that the law would beat down his door in search of three missing... Read more »
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Captiva
By: Randy Wayne White
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Captiva by Randy Wayne White is now available for the first time in audio!
"We'll drop anything we're doing to read a new Randy White novel and be glad we did." (Denver Post)
Randy Wayne White is acclaimed as "wildly inventive" (The San Diego Union-Tribune), "a wonderful writer" (Paul Theroux), "a fine storyteller" (Peter Matthiessen), and "the... Read more »

North of Havana
By: Randy Wayne White
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
North of Havana by Randy Wayne White is now available for the first time in audio!
"We'll drop anything we're doing to read a new Randy White novel and be glad we did." (Denver Post)
Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford novels have been praised as "witty" (San Diego Union-Tribune), "must-reads" (Chicago Tribune) and "superb." (Denver Post) In his fifth... Read more »

Mangrove Coast
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Marine Biologist Doc Ford is hot on the trail of a dead friend's wife. Apparently, the woman vanished into the steaming jungles of South America guided by a truly disgusting specimen of humanity. From Florida to Columbia and Panama, Doc traces their path, but a shadowy figure is following him-and the violence left in the wake of this individual... Read more »
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Ten Thousand Islands
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Randy Wayne White is the author of Mangrove Coast and five additional best-selling Doc Ford mysteries. A mysterious gold medallion precipitates a search that plunges the Florida marine biologist into a world of ancient ritual and modern evil. Filled with suspense and highly-charged atmosphere, this novel has received rave reviews in widespread... Read more »
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Shark River
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Randy Wayne White is a journalist, veteran fishing guide, and author of several nonfiction collections. He also creates superb, best-selling suspense fiction. His novels have received the highest praise from Library Journal and Booklist, and from authors like Carl Hiassen, who says, "Randy Wayne White takes us places that no other Florida... Read more »
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Twelve Mile Limit
By: Randy Wayne White
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Twelve Mile Limit by Randy Wayne White is now available for the first time in audio!
"We'll drop anything we're doing to read a new Randy White novel and be glad we did." (Denver Post)
Randy Wayne White's ninth Doc Ford novel starts out as a fun excursion for four divers off the Florida coast. Two days later only one is found alive-naked atop a... Read more »

Hunter's Moon
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Doc Ford saves a former President of the United States from assassination-and regrets it. Months ago, Kal Wilson's wife was killed in a plane crash. President Wilson is sure it was no accident-and he wants revenge. He needs Doc Ford to spring him loose from the watchful eye of the Secret Service, keep him alive, then get him home. Ford has just... Read more »
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Black Widow
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A cult of death.
A weapon of apocalyptic horror.
Juan Cabrillo must stop them both.
THE "FASCINATING" ( BOOKLIST) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Some women you love.
Some women you hate.
Some women you survive.
Doc Ford is drawn into a deadly battle when his goddaughter Shay is blackmailed. Someone filmed her at an out-of-control bachelorette... Read more »

Dead Silence
By: Randy Wayne White
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
So terrifying it'll leave readers breathless...
When a Minnesota teen is kidnapped, Doc Ford is given an unthinkable ultimatum, and only 36 hours to act on it. But there's something unusual about the boy that his captors don't even know, twisting this deadly game out of control in ways no one can imagine. Read more »

Deep Shadow
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Doc Ford wrestles more than one kind of demon, in the stunning novel from the New York Times-bestselling author.
Many dangers lurk in the deep-the worst of them are human.
Thirty minutes into what should have been an easy, beginner-level dive in a remote Florida lake, the rim of a cave collapses, trapping two of Doc Ford's friends. Ford... Read more »

Night Vision
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Doc Ford is on a collision course with death in this extraordinary new novel from the New York Times bestselling author.
Alot is going on in the trailer park known as Little Guadalajara, inhabited principally by illegal laborers. The park manager is the hired gun of a financial syndicate that wants to develop the property, and he's prepared to... Read more »

Chasing Midnight
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
It began peacefully enough, on one of Florida's private islands.
At a reception hosted by a notorious Russian black marketeer, Doc Ford uses darkness, and his friend Tomlinson, as cover to get an underwater look at the billionaire's yacht. By the time Ford surfaces, everything has changed.
Environmental extremists have taken control of the... Read more »
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Night Moves
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Doc Ford has his share of secrets. One of them has returned with a vengeance. . . .
While trying to solve one of Florida’s most profound mysteries, Doc Ford is the target of a murder attempt by someone who wants to make it look like an accident. Or is the target actually his friend Tomlinson? Whatever the answer, the liveaboards and fishing... Read more »

Bone Deep
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson’s asks him to help recover relics stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along—but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they’ve let themselves in for. Their search takes them to the part of Central Florida known as Bone Valley, famous primarily for two things: a ruthless subculture of... Read more »
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Cuba Straits
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The remarkable new novel in the Doc Ford series by New York Times–bestselling author Randy Wayne White.
Doc Ford’s old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what... Read more »

Deep Blue
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Doc Ford has long lived a double life. This time, it may finally have caught up to him. The electrifying new thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author.
“I’ll make an example of someone close to you.”
On a moonless night on Sanibel Island, Florida, marine biologist Marion “Doc” Ford carefully watches a video of a hooded man... Read more »

Mangrove Lightning
By: Randy Wayne White
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The ghosts of a 1925 multiple murder stalk Doc Ford in this electrifying novel in the New York Times–bestselling series.
Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest. A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come to him, muttering about a curse. The members of his extended family have... Read more »

Caribbean Rim
By: Randy Wayne White
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Murder, sunken treasure, and pirates both ancient and modern send Doc Ford on a nightmare quest in this New York Times bestseller in Randy Wayne White's thrilling series.
Marine biologist Doc Ford has been known to help his friends out of jams occasionally, but he's never faced a situation like this.
His old pal Carl Fitzpatrick has been chasing... Read more »

Salt River
By: Randy Wayne White
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The sins of the past come back to haunt Doc Ford and his old friend Tomlinson in this thrilling new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Randy Wayne White.
Marine biologist and former government agent Doc Ford is sure he's beyond the point of being surprised by his longtime pal Tomlinson's madcap tales of his misspent youth. But he's... Read more »