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1) Night moves
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2013
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Description
Unsure if he or his friend Tomlinson was the target of a recent murder attempt, Doc Ford continues investigating a near-poisoning, a plane crash, and an explosion off Sanibel Island .
2) Zoo
Author
Series
Zoo novels volume 1
Description
As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans.
3) Dark light
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 13
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a massive hurricane off the coast of Florida, an elderly woman seeks Doc Ford's assistance in combing the reshaped ocean bottom for evidence that would exonerate a loved one for alleged activities during World War II.
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Description
Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, Flight Behavior tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 22
Description
When a key element of a new and powerful attack submarine goes missing and ships begin disappearing in mid-ocean, NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his team embark on an international chase to discover the truth.
6) Deep shadow
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 17
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
x, 353 p. : map ; 24 cm.
7) Cannery Row
Author
Description
Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Floodrsquo's bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist...
8) Night vision
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 18
Description
When a local teen from a trailer park being targeted by powerful developers witnesses their hired gun committing a murder, her only hope for survival falls in the hands of Doc Ford and Tomlinson, who undertake a search through the underground in the hopes of finding her first.
11) Chasing midnight
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 19
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Sneaking an underwater look at a notorious Russian black marketeer's fancy yacht, Doc Ford emerges to discover that the marketeer's private island has been taken over by environmental extremists who threaten to kill a hostage every hour until their demands are met.
12) Havana storm
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 23
Description
"While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous--a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is, that...
13) Hunter's moon
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 14
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
x, 317 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
Saving a controversial former U.S. president from an assassination attempt, Doc Ford learns that the government is planning a secret strike on a Central American oil-rich nation that the former president, aided by a pair of questionable adversaries, is attempting to prevent.
14) Black widow
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 15
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
369 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Traces an incrementally violent confrontation between a National Park Service biologist who would eradicate invasive wildlife on the Channel Islands and two locals who are fiercely opposed to the killing of any creatures.
16) Deep blue
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 23
Description
"Doc Ford has long lived a double life. This time, it may finally have caught up to him when a recent operation has more complications than he anticipated and he ends up bringing those complications back to the small community he calls home. Now no one there is safe--least of all, Ford himself"--
On a moonless night on Sanibel Island, Florida, marine biologist Marion "Doc" Ford carefully watches a video of a hooded man executing three hostages. The...
17) Monterey Bay
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In 1940, fifteen year-old Margot Fiske arrives on the shores of Monterey Bay with her eccentric entrepreneur father. Margot has been her father's apprentice all over the world, until an accident in Monterey's tide pools drives them apart and plunges her head-first into the mayhem of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row."--Amazon.com.
18) Dead silence
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 16
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
x, 354 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
Winter in New York City: Doc Ford is at the Explorers Club. He foils an abduction attempt on a senator, but the companion in her car is snatched--and buried alive, leading to a series of remarkable twists and revelations.
20) Prey
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xi, 367 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In the Nevada desert, a handful of scientists are battling to retrieve a swarm of rogue micro-robots that has escaped from the lab. The swarm is self-sustaining, self-reproducing and capable of learning from experience. It is, to all intents and purposes, alive. And very, very deadly. Because it has been programmed as a ruthless predator, a predator that becomes more dangerous with every passing hour ... And we are the prey.
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