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| North of Havana (Doc Ford) | 
 enlarge | Author: Randy Wayne White
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 51017
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 042516294X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425162941
ASIN: 042516294X
Publication Date: May 1, 1998
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Book Description
Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford novels have been praised as "witty" (San Diego Union-Tribune), "must-reads" (Chicago Tribune) and "superb." (Denver Post) Now, White's newest thriller takes Doc Ford to Havana, where his friend is being held by the Cuban government. Still haunted by his suspected involvement in a plot against Castro, Ford ventures to Cuba--where he finds himself entangled in a web of murder, revenge, and assassination.
* >From the author of the critically acclaimed novel Captiva (Prime Crime, 5/97)
* Another mystery featuring Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford is on the way
* Will appeal to fans of Carl Hiaasen and John D. Macdonald
* "We'll drop anything we're doing to read a new Randy White novel and be glad we did." --Denver Post
Amazon.com
Randy Wayne White--try saying that three times, fast--had everybody shouting about a new Travis McGee with 1996's Captiva. But White's marine biologist Doc Ford is a much more complicated character than the late, great John D. MacDonald's muscular bounty hunter. For one thing, Ford has a shadowy political past--which explains why he's reluctant to race down to Havana to bail out his chemically-abusive friend Tomlinson when his boat is impounded under suspicious circumstances. "By most definitions it was a nightmare, but to me it was simply a sleeping revisitation of a thing I had done, a thing that I loathed," says Doc--planting the seeds of a revelation about his past and showing off the kind of writing that makes his new book so compulsively readable.
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 North of Havana is South of White's Best May 6, 2007
Randy Wayne White is an outstanding writer and his novels are usually quick reading page turners. North of Havana is a little different because it is set in Cuba and the character dynamics are different. Tomlinson seems laregly insane and Dewey Nye (who accompanies Doc to Cuba against his wishes) does not seem to fit into this story very well. For some reason North of Havana bogs down a little. It's not a bad read but didn't pull me in the way Randy's books usually do. That being said, you need to read this one in sequence with the others if you want to fully understand the story of Doc Ford's relationship with Dewey, Pilar, and his son.
 One of my all time favorite writers February 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
RWW is always excellent! I have read his 1st five books this last year-
normally I get bored with authors and will not read more than 2 a year.
Each story is very different from the previous yet is very much part of the series.
Each character seems authentic and with a voice unique from the others.
Most authors seem to have trouble doing this - their characters talk from the roughly the same voice or perspective.
This story might have been a little slow but RWW writes so well I don't mind. Plenty of suprises big & subtle. As always good characters, fast paced dialogue,action and emotion. Once again I'm dissappointed to be finished. On to book 6!
Another good read February 14, 2007
Like the rest of the Doc Ford novels, it's well worth the time.
negative reviews? January 16, 2007
I have been interested in reading the reviews of this book. I read widely, and have read all of RWW's books and I am surprised at some of the negative reviews here. I read "North of Havana" last (of RWW books including nonfiction) and liked it as well as any other. I did not think the book slowed at all and I found it interesting until the end.
The reviews on this page turned me off from reading "North of Havana," but having no other RWW to read, I picked it up. I am glad I did. If you are a fan, don't let negative reviews keep you from enjoying this one too.
A great read, but not his best July 16, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a big RWW fan and enjoyed this book as well, but as stated by an earlier reviewer, I thought "North of Havana" lost a little steam midway through. It may have been the fact that Tomlinson, whose eccentricities are normally a source of mild consternation for Doc Ford, are the cause of some major problems, both to Ford and to his female companion. That those character flaws lead indirectly to several deaths makes Tomlinson less quirky and more downright irritating.Otherwise, an action-focused entry in a great series of novels.
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