Dark Light
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Imagine hurricane winds over the Sahara Desert, preceded by a cavalry of tornadoes. Imagine dunes flattened, then resculpted. Then imagine all that at the bottom of the sea.
A Category 4 hurricane has swept the west coast of Florida, creating havoc, changing lives, and reshaping the ocean bottom. Well-known reefs and wrecks have been covered—and new ones have emerged.
From one such wreck, marine biologist Doc Ford and his friends make a chance discovery that will have a monumental effect—a cluster of mysterious objects that lead to an equally mysterious woman and her ancient, gray-gabled estate of a beach house.
The woman weaves a haunting story of a loved one lost, and her chance to uncover the truth if Ford will help salvage the boat, named Dark Light, which sank without explanation in the hurricane of 1944. Intrigued, Ford agrees, and begins a chain of events that will change his life forever. For there are other things in that wreck as well, and other men who want them, men willing to commit terrible acts. And the woman herself—the woman is not what she seems. . . .
Filled with passion and vivid, pungent prose and some of the best characters in suspense fiction, Dark Light is a thriller of uncommon intensity.
Randy Wayne White
Randy Wayne White is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Doc Ford series. In 2011, White was named a Florida Literary Legend by the Florida Heritage Society. A fishing and nature enthusiast, he has also written extensively for National Geographic Adventure, Men's Journal, Playboy and Men's Health. 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. Sharks Incorporated is his middle grade series, including Fins and Stingers.
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Reviews for Dark Light
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One of the better Doc Ford books I've read. Two seemingly independent plot lines merge surprisingly toward the end. I always enjoy the interactions among Doc's pals.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Doc Ford is a man I could easily have a crush on. And there's his buddy, Tomlinson, who is a free spirit with a wicked sense of humor. Both are smart and take care of themselves, each other and their friends. There seem to be two stories going on, but they are intertwined. There are some Wisconsin mob guys down taking advantage of the last hurricane's destructive path. Doc wants to set them straight after the mob guys take on some of Doc's buds. Then there's the the mystery woman Tomlinson introduces to Doc. The story she tells of lost WWII treasure in the ocean intrigues Doc as much as the mystery woman does. I've listened to a couple of books from this series and enjoyed each one thoroughly. This one was especially so. This is a series, but each one can be listened to as a stand-alone as far as I am concerned. And rarely does a series keep going strong when there are a lot of books in the series. This isn't one of those, again, as far as I am concerned. DARK LIGHT is #13 in the lineup and there are 17 of them.Five Florida coast can be dangerous beans.....
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Almost didn't finish reading this one, but after a slow start it finally caught my interest. Doc ford and some friends discover a sunken ship after a hurricane and find Nazi artifacts in the wreckage. There is a great deal of information about life in the Sanibel Island area of Florida during WWII and interesting characters. I'll have to read another book in the series before deciding whether to put it on my list of series to read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Centered around the unrest of a hurricane season on the gulf coast of Florida, Doc Ford stays close to home in Dark Light and gets caught up in the mystery of sunken Nazi artifacts. He has to fight greedy developers, murderers, retired NFL giants, boat thieves, and treasure hunters - actually that's one formidable villain in many evil hats. A hint of the supernatural and a bit of protest against the destruction of Florida's natural habitat are included in the mix. Somehow it all hangs together.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Set after Hurricane Charley devastated Sanibel and Captiva Islands, this story had me flipping pages as fast I could. Though at times mildly predictable, this is Randy Wayne White and Doc Ford at their finest.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tone of Language: Philosophical, nuanced, abstractPlot Twists: When a clever deception instigated generations ago is finally deciphered, new mysteries arise and remain.Characters: Some are very good and some are very bad, but both sides are lost and struggling.Values: Genuineness and honesty are best but they turn into secretiveness when things do not seem right.Pace: Smart characters accelerate the action.Background Research: Marine science, boating, weather, Florida historySexuality: Passionate desires are easily capable of overwhelming one's better judgment.Ending: The good things in life appear and disappear unexpectedly in cycles that leave you bewildered but hopeful.Offensive to Any Group: Germans, FeministsTarget Audience: Men, South FloridiansFlaws: The apparent reappearance of Roth after he was thought dead leads Chestra to believe Roth abandoned his lover Marlissa, but why was Chestra anxious about their love well before that?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A long time ago I started reading Randy Wayne White after I had read all the Carl Hiassen books and other Florida writers. His earliest books were filled with guns and graphic violence. This book is more of an elegy of lives lost to hurricanes and age. Yes, there is a psychopath who is the major evil figure, but more of the book concerns Doc Ford's slow recovery from injury, loss, and hurt. The writing seems a bit disjointed. I wondered if I had missed a paragraph or two. This may be due to the author's homelessness from the real hurricane he suffered through. It is still evocative of the pleasures of boats, beaches, and the ocean, but in the end Doc Ford seems more lost than ever.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Doc Ford mystery set in the days and weeks after Hurricane Charley and calling up the hurricane of Oct. 19, 1944 that flooded Sanibel. The storm-struck inhabitants of Dinkins Bay are trying to put their lives back together as a sociopathic heir to a one-time Nazi Florida developer tries to steal and cheat his way to wealth. The hurricane waters have revealed a WWII wreck with Nazi treasure and ties to the mysterious Mildred Chestra Engle, goddaughter of the lost ethereal beauty, Marissa Dorn. Also uncovered is a tangled history of the powerful – Thomas Edison and Henry Ford; the creative – Edna St. Vincent Millay and Anne Lindbergh; German prisoners of war, racism, and the aborted, secret loves of a young woman. Although White’s novel follows the pattern of an unfolding mystery that will be solved by Ford’s rational detective work, there is an added element of enigmatic change, not only to the environment, but to people and even to historical consciousness, wrought by the hurricane. White acknowledges the psychic shifts blown in with the hurricane’s winds.