Someone recommended this series to me some time ago and I finally got around to reading this first Doc Ford novel. Doc is an ex-CIA agent and marine biologist who has retired on Sanibel Island on the west coast of Florida. (I remember visiting Sanibel a few years ago on a family vacation where we were amazed by the amount of beautiful seashells scattered along its beaches.)
In this novel, Doc is visited by his old friend Rafe Hollins, who tells him that his son has been abducted in the Central American country of Masagua and he wants Doc to help rescue him. Doc agrees to meet Rafe on another small island but when he goes there he finds Rafe hanging from a tree. Did Rafe commit suicide or was he murdered? Doc sets out to find the answer as well as to try and rescue Rafe's son in Masagua. Along the way, we meet the colorful characters who also live on Sanibel, including Tomlinson, a free-spirit hippie type, who agrees to go with Doc to Masagua on the rescue mission. The boy is being held by a group of radicals that have been smuggling Mayan artifacts and want to take over the Masaguan government. Overall, this was a good action thriller and included a twist at the end that I didn't see coming. In addition, White gives a good history lesson about the conquest of the Mayans in Central America and does an excellent job of describing how it feels to live among the boaters on Sanibel. I'll be reading more in this series.
In this novel, Doc is visited by his old friend Rafe Hollins, who tells him that his son has been abducted in the Central American country of Masagua and he wants Doc to help rescue him. Doc agrees to meet Rafe on another small island but when he goes there he finds Rafe hanging from a tree. Did Rafe commit suicide or was he murdered? Doc sets out to find the answer as well as to try and rescue Rafe's son in Masagua. Along the way, we meet the colorful characters who also live on Sanibel, including Tomlinson, a free-spirit hippie type, who agrees to go with Doc to Masagua on the rescue mission. The boy is being held by a group of radicals that have been smuggling Mayan artifacts and want to take over the Masaguan government. Overall, this was a good action thriller and included a twist at the end that I didn't see coming. In addition, White gives a good history lesson about the conquest of the Mayans in Central America and does an excellent job of describing how it feels to live among the boaters on Sanibel. I'll be reading more in this series.
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