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| Black Widow | 
 enlarge | Author: Randy Wayne White
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (25 reviews)
Sales Rank: 9842
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0399154566
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399154560
ASIN: 0399154566
Publication Date: March 18, 2008
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 Great Thriller April 9, 2008
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
Entreated by his goddaughter to help pay off a blackmailer who videotaped her bachelorette party and then threatened to expose her debauchery, Doc Ford reluctantly agrees and then finds himself in danger when the extortionist releases the tape anyway, prompting a bridesmaid's suicide and a dangerous vengeance plot.
Another one of my favorite Florida authors. The Doc Ford series is one of my favorite and never lacks in entertaining the reader. Randy Wayne White writes well written and well rounded thrillers that are satisfying from beginning to end. I look forward to his next in the series.
From inside: Unless a man is in mortal danger, hitting a woman is contrary to evolutionary design. The man should be confined for the welfare of the species. A man who rapes a woman breaches the laws of natural selection. He should be euthanized to protect the integrity of the species.
Black Widow April 6, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Doc Ford just keeps getting better! As in all of Mr. White's previous Doc Ford tales the journey & geography this time Saint Lucia in the Caribbean is so seductively protrayed the reader feels like they're sharing a holiday.....albeit a dangerous holiday. The characters are both real & surreal with the addition of a psychotic self-proclaimed Voodoo like-Priestess & a 70+ year old Brit who James Bond could only hope to aspire to in retirement. The protagnost Doc Ford is real... A real hero complete with exposed emotions wrapped into this very complex & intelligent man. The reader gets hooked into non-stop action with all benefits of author's meticulous research & humanity. Thanks Randy for another fine read!!
 good ride April 3, 2008
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
The first 2/3's fly. The last gets strange. And the ending doesn't really satisfy. This reader hopes that the ailments of our hero are solely his and not reality for another. The author is a master of place and traveller that he is, can inspire us to visit places. Some good bad guys. Lots of referrences to older thrillers. Guano on a Caribbean isle and a British agent the most obvious.
Ford still runs great March 30, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
"Black Widow" is another winner in Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford Series. Just before her marriage into a wealthy, socially prominent family, Ford's goddaughter Shay Money is targeted by blackmailers after a particularly wild bachelorette weekend where she may have been drugged and then taped doing shameful things. Ford is enlisted to deliver the hush money, but when he suspects that things won't end there, he takes a trip down to the Caribbean island of St Arc, scene of his goddaughter's unfortunate antics. There, he finds a voodoo priestess who is running the sophisticated blackmail ring that has put more than a few unsuspecting (and rich) women into compromising positions and then bled them of cash. In trying to free Shay from her predicament, Ford teams up with a rakish, older English gentleman who regards himself as a defender of the innocent, not to mention a descendent of the Knights Templar, and may be, like Ford himself, a former special-ops agent.
Voodoo priestess? Templar Knights? Sounds hokey, but with White's interesting characters and fast-moving plot it's all great fun. "Black Widow" reminds me of some of Stuart Woods' more light-hearted fare (that's a good thing) like "Shoot Him If He Runs," which shares a tropical island backdrop. Entertaining, indeed.
Also recommended: A Stranger Lies There - this mystery won the Malice Domestic Award for best first mystery.
Another Great Randy Wayne White Read. March 27, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
After being disappointed with Hunter's Moon, this book restored my enjoyment of the Doc Ford franchise. I have to say, however, that White wrote Hunter's Moon at the same time he was dealing with the aftermath of the hurricanes that hit his area of Florida in 2005.
Blackmail and voodoo are among the evils that Ford is faced with in this fast paced novel. There are also the usual `nature lessons' that pertain to Ford's job as a biologist. The descriptions of poison shrimp and the dangers of jelly fish are an added feature to the story. Ford and Tomlinson's encounter with beached Pilot Whales and the Hammerhead sharks that are attracted to the distressed whales is an interesting side bar.
Along the way, Ford teams up with an elderly British gentleman who brings James Bond to mind. He comes across as a former British operative who now lives on St. Lucia in the Caribbean. He also fancies himself as a descendent of the Knights Templar. All in all a very likeable character and plays a vital role in the story.
Without spoiling the plot, the ending definitely leaves one thinking about the plot line in the next book in the series.
Thank you, Mr. White, for another entertaining novel.
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