General Information
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 Title:                  Ten Thousand Island
 Author:                 Randy Wayne White
 Read By:                Ron McLarty
 Copyright:              2000
 Audiobook Copyright:    2005
 Genre:                  Mystery
 Publisher:              Recorded Books Inc
 Series Name:            Doc Ford
 Position in Series:     7
 Abridged:               No

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 Media:                  eAudio
 Number:                 16
 Length each:            0:30
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              OK

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Book Description
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Amazon.com Review
Of all the Travis McGee wannabes who've appeared on the mystery scene 
since the death of John D. MacDonald, Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford, 
the marine biologist with an intentionally vague history of military 
espionage, comes closest to hitting the mark. In this seventh outing 
in a popular series that's never quite broken into bestsellerdom, Ford 
is finagled away from his beloved fish and his stilt house off Florida's 
Gulf Coast to investigate the grave robbing of a long-dead adolescent 
girl who had a remarkable gift for finding archaeological artifacts 
of a long-gone civilization of Calusa Indians. The centuries-old gold 
medallion that may have been buried with Dorothy Copeland has mysterious 
powers--at least, that's what a big Florida developer whose son is being 
groomed for high political office seems to believe. By the time Doc 
Ford starts investigating the incident, along with his oddly gifted 
friend Tomlinson (a druggie with a past as violent and mysterious as 
his own), more lives are at stake, including Doc's.

Ten Thousand Islands is based on a true story of multiple tragedies 
associated with the 1969 discovery of the medallion at the novel's center. 
But the complicated tale of mayhem and serial murder White weaves of 
it is all his own. Doc Ford is an increasingly interesting character 
whose love life takes up as many pages as the plot, but the community 
of Dinkin's Bay, with its fascinating and well-drawn minor characters, 
is as great a part of White's series as the denizens of Travis McGee's 
Fort Lauderdale marina were of MacDonald's. --Jane Adams --This text 
refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


From Publishers Weekly
Of all the writers currently exploiting the Florida mayhem boom, only 
White can claim to have created a series hero, marine biologist Marion 
"Doc" Ford, to match Hemingway's memorable outdoorsmen and John D. MacDonald's 
much-missed Travis McGee. Some of the Ford books have been unfocused, 
but White's seventh (after 1998's The Mangrove Coast) is one of the 
strongest, rich with not only evocative images ("I spooked a school 
of redfish that angled away as a herd, pushing an acre of waking water") 
but also with an unusually deep cast of characters. Ford himself is 
in top form, quickly convincing readers that he cares as much about 
his real job (capturing snook for a lab working to improve the breed) 
as he does about solving a mysteryDin this case, why the grave of a 
15-year-old girl who had an uncanny ability to find things has been 
desecrated. Somebody is after a 400-year-old gold medallion that she 
unearthed, a relic of the Calusa Indians. Besides Ford's scene-stealing 
druggy sidekick, Tomlinson, there are some very interesting female characters: 
the dead girl herself, with whom Ford turns out to have a strange connection; 
her gutsy mother, a tough waitress working to keep her daughter's memory 
alive and unsullied; a young archeologist and an older local woman who 
take Ford's mind off his former lover. Even the obvious villains, a 
wealthy and politically powerful father-and-son team, are saved from 
being clich s by some original touches. But the real star is the seascape 
of Florida, something that FordDand WhiteDknow intimately.

