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A really slow starter. I've stopped reading it for now. I MAY start reading it again - because I like the other Doc Ford books... I hope it gets better.
Another Doc Ford installment. Great series! Be sure to read in order though...it makes a difference!
Another Randy Wayne White thriller with plenty of excitment that will fire your imagination.
Randy White's newest thriller takes Doc Ford to Havanna, where a sriend is being held by the Cuban Government. Still haunted by his suspected involvement in a plot against Castro, Ford leaves Florida and ventures to Cuba - where he finds himself entangled in a web of murder, revenge ... and assassination.
doc ford goes to havana where a friend is being held by the cuban goverment.still haunted by his suspected involvementin a plot against castro,ford leaves flordia and ventures to cuba -wbere he finds himself entangles in a web of muder ,and revenge
Doc Ford goes to Cuba to rescue his friend. Not a bad book.
I have enjoyed most of the Doc Ford series that I have read so far, but North of Havana is not one of them. The departure to Cuba in aid of a friend is interesting in giving a picture of the decaying society under the dictatorship of Fidel Castro; but, the strange characters, aura of Santeria religion, and frequent deadly violence do not quite fit with the disjointed plot and improbable events in the story. I found it hard to stay interested and keep track of the sketchy characters populating the pages. My advice is to skip this book and move on down the list of Doc Ford titles
It is another of Randy Whites good books, all of his books are hard to put down until you finish it.
I'm impressed by the way Randy W. White has written the characters, especially leaving the real identity of Lenny to the end. Exciting plots!
A few days before Christmas, marine biologist and former CIA operative Marion "Doc" Ford receives a call from a pal whose sailboat has strayed into Cuban waters. The friend needs Ford's help to bribe officials and get back his impounded boat. Complicating his life still further, an impossible love named Dewey has arrived that afternoon. Now Ford must go to Cuba, a dangerous trip because of his clandestine operations there that is made more dangerous by Dewey's insistence on accompanying him. What Ford encounters in Cuba is not simple government graft but a plot to eliminate Castro, and if Ford and his friends are to survive he must risk an alliance with a former Soviet agent, one of a cadre with its own reasons for wanting him dead. This is a fine addition to White's Doc Ford series (e.g., Captiva, Putnam, 1996), crackling with both tension and humor
