Black Widow by Randy Wayne White

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Black Widow
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Updated on 11-9-2008.

Features

Audio CD: 7 pages

Publisher: Penguin Audio; Unabridged edition (March 18, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0143142887

ISBN-13: 978-0143142881

Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 5.3 x 1.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 9 ounces ()

From Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Ford's 15th Doc Ford thriller (after 2007's Hunter's Moon) may baffle newcomers with a backstory relating to the murder of Ford's parents. Ford, a marine biologist and covert operative who lives on Florida's Sanibel Island, is busy serving his shadowy U.S. government masters by researching the potential use by terrorists of jellyfish and other venomous sea creatures when he receives a desperate appeal for help from an old friend. Shay Money, a successful 26-year-old businesswoman who's about to be married, fears her future happiness is in jeopardy because an extortionist has videotaped her and three female friends in sexually compromising situations. While Ford manages to get the tape in exchange for a sizable payment, his suspicions that the criminal isn't done with Money are soon confirmed. His efforts to protect her lead him to the Caribbean and a sophisticated blackmail racket with a lengthy list of victims. Despite some awkward prose (The combination of flesh and death, the orderly geometrics of my wound, struck me as indefinably profound), series fans should enjoy the ride. Author tour. (Mar.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From AudioFile
If you want your audiobook to be a success, hire George Guidall. Pretty simple. It's even better when Guidall reads a masterful story, like BLACK WIDOW. In the latest in the Doc Ford series (number 14), the semi retired government agent helps a young friend who is being blackmailed before her wedding. A free-for-all bachelorette party that took place on a Caribbean island now threatens her nuptials. Guidall perfectly becomes all the characters, even the women, both young and alluring and icy and suspicious. Can Doc Ford get to the bottom of the blackmailing mystery? Is there any doubt? But getting there is all the fun as Guidall leads listeners in unraveling the insidious plot, aided by a smashing English gentleman known for his derring-do. Eh, wot? M.S. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Black Widow (Hardcover) I saw Randy Wayne White speak at a booksigning down here in Southwest Florida last night, and was impressed with his gift for storytelling and self-effacing sense of humor. I could see how this relaxed, funny guy wrote Black Widow, which is a shameless potboiling page-turner. This is exactly the kind of book you want with you at the beach, preferably with an ice-cold Corona or frosty margarita. To be precise, on Lighthouse Beach or Bowman's Beach on beautiful Sanibel Island, the very real home of fictional Doc Ford, the hero of Black Widow. I'm biased. I live on Sanibel, and I'm partial to books that focus on places I know. So I especially enjoyed the parts of the book set here. But even the segments set elsewhere stayed interesting and moved fast. The story, which includes steamy tropical sex, blackmail, poisonous jellyfish and attacking hammerhead sharks, is outlandish and delicious. I enjoyed Doc's hippie neighbor Tomlinson, who thinks he can talk with whales. Doc himself seems cut from the same cloth as Indiana Jones -- just substitute biologist for archeologist and you're halfway there. My only caveat: you'll enjoy the book the most if you're familiar with White's earlier Doc Ford titles. There's a lot of talk of things that have happened before. If you're a newbie to the joys of Randy Wayne White, I suggest starting with an earlier Doc Ford novel and working your way through.

Black Widow
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Available from Amazon
Price: $26.37
Updated on 11-9-2008.