Doc Ford novels

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 his beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the locals over a cold beer lulled him into letting his...

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 men.But Doc Ford is about to find these things out-the hard way. Because in the shadowy world of Southwest Florida,...

Marion "Doc" Ford goes to Cuba when his friend calls him and says he's being held by the country's government and needs bail. When Ford arrives, he finds himself involved in a complex plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.

After finding a four-century-old gold medallion, a young girl is plagued by nightmares and then found hanging from the limb of a tree, at the time, coroner Doc Ford ruled her death an accident, but when the girl's mother begins complaining of strange threats, he begins to wonder if she was murdered.

Doc Ford is called in to investigate when three deep-sea divers disappear, leaving only one survivor who is too shaken to remember what really happened, and as Doc begins to investigate the case, he discovers a link to an even greater tragedy.

It's taken ten years for former assassin Doc Form to reinvent himself on Florida's Gulf coast. Now the abduction of his only son--the legace of a long-ago love affair--has pulled him back into the shadow of his violent past, and more is at stake than ransom. The kidnapper is a legend known as Incendiario. Torture by fire is his speciality--and his pleasure. In the pay of a vengeful politco with twisted ties to Doc, Incendiario is arranging a private...

Doc Ford becomes ensnared in a complex mystery involving Nazi relics, valuable beachfront property, and a mysterious older woman when he agrees to salvage a pleasure boat sunk in 1944 that has resurfaced during a hurricane off the Florida coast.

Doc Ford agrees to help his goddaughter, Shay, who is being blackmailed by an unknown extortionist who is threatening to release a video that could destroy her future, but Doc regrets the decision when one of Shay's friends becomes an innocent victim in a plan gone horribly wrong.

Doc Ford escapes an accident while underwater diving with two friends and while seeking help for them he runs afoul of criminals who demand his help to recover a legendary sunken treasure.

Sneaking an underwater look at a notorious Russian black marketeer's fancy yacht, Doc Ford emerges to discover that the marketeer's private island has been taken over by environmental extremists who threaten to kill a hostage every hour until their demands are met.

There's a reason they call this part of Central Florida 'Bone Valley.' When Tomlinson's Crow indian acquaintance enlists Doc Ford to help find his tribe's stolen relic, Doc Ford and company find themselves taking on illegal artifacts traders and a rich-beyond-belief phosphate industry, neither of which take too kindly to Doc Ford's questions.

"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 executing three hostages. The man is an American working with ISIS, and in the next few days, it'll be Ford's job,...

"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 sunken wrecks most of his life, but now he's run afoul of the Florida Division of Historical Resources. Its director, Leonard Nickelby, despises amateur archaeologists, which is bad enough, but now he and his young "assistant" have disappeared--along with Fitzpatrick's impounded...