Fun article on local best-selling author Randy Wayne White by Joseph W. Smith III from the Lock Haven Express (Lock Haven, PA).
It begins:
Ironically, I was introduced to my favorite author not through a library or bookshop, but rather at a restaurant.
On a 2012 visit to Florida’s Sanibel Island, my wife and I wandered into Doc Ford’s Rum Bar & Grille, named for a series of thrillers by Florida-based writer Randy Wayne White. There, in addition to a terrific meal, I bought a signed copy of White’s new book, and that did it. I was hooked.
White’s Marion “Doc” Ford is a marine biologist on Sanibel, a lovely, low-key tourist mecca just off Fort Myers on the Gulf Coast. Though Ford prefers puttering around in his lab and boating among many nearby islands, his background as a retired NSA agent suits him well for the mysteries, kidnappings, killings and other cases he’s been stumbling into since Doc’s debut in 1990.
The 26 Ford books offer peerless summer reading for beaches, pool-sides and airport layovers. Expertly plotted and meticulously researched, White’s novels blend nail-biting action with bracing evocation of life on Sanibel, one-third of which is a wildlife refuge.
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