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Twelve Mile Limit A Doc Ford Novel Randy Wayne White Books

Randy Wayne White is on my short list for entertaining reads and Doc Ford is one of the more developed and interesting fictional characters I’ve followed. White brings a fresh environmental storyline to his novels ensuring that even after living in Florida for more than 30 years; I still come away learning something about the sunshine state. This read is unique in that it includes aspects of the story that are based on actual events which you learn in the closing pages. White’s experience on the water brings to life the smallest of details that puts the reader out in the waves, smelling the salt brine and feeling the sensation of rolling waves breaking overhead. People missing at sea, human trafficking, travel into the jungles of South America and Dinkins Bay; what more could you ask for in a single novel? It’s a solid enjoyable read by a master of his craft.


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Twelve Mile Limit A Doc Ford Novel Randy Wayne White Books Reviews

If you like Doc Ford, you'll love this one, he is the absolute center of the novel. It includes an attractive lawyer, a disaster and rescue at sea, Dinkin's Bay parties, Coast Guard lore, drunken bigshot actors, dog fights, drug/people smugglers, wicked Columbians, a large Albino, mysterious mid-easterners, an I.R.A. bomber on the run, headhunters, paid (by some government) assasins, midnight raids, a jungle adventure and count em, four different women in the sack with Doc. Travis had nothing on Doc. This novel is like those Miami area flea markets in converted malls something for everyone and everything for someone.
There is less interaction with Tomlinson than usual; and although she makes a token visit, White's newly introduced character of Doc's "sister" (cousin) is not as extensive a part of the plot as might be expected.
Despite this White manages to keep his plot moving. Part of the skill, as he admits in an epilogue, is the reliance on factual situations. Anyone who has written effective narrative has relied on a string of events, mixed and reattached, but derived some way from reality.
In the novel's climax, as Doc confronts/assists a special forces operative who has become a force in the jungle, echoes of Kurtz and Marlow appear. But the situation is like that in the classic film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Justification of extreme force to protect the innocent, even in the face of law, is and has been an important philosophical problem, closely akin to the place of evil in the world. White deliberately raises the point of EVIL. There is no doubt that such actions as Doc takes are requisite socially, but what are the personal consequences; what kind of man does such deeds?
Just in case this seems too dour, the concluding event will become a comic classic in the tales of surveillance.
One of my favorite parts of a Randy Wayne White thriller is bar-hopping in a boat. I can't remember exactly which one it was that had this unique feature, but, being a fan of bar-hopping in any form, I thought it to be a brilliant idea.

Twelve Mile Limit had yet another different twist on the bar-hop. It was bar-hopping while wandering up and down the beach. Maybe this is a common theme in beach communities, but being a hopeless inlander, I found it different and charming. This bar-hop also had the unique feature of a rolling bar-room brawl to go along with the bar-hopping. What more could one ask for? We get to see Doc Ford kick the ass of an arrogant action/adventure movie star type, who, with his Aikido background and bad-ass reputation was so obviously patterned after Steven Seagal that it made me wonder what Steven Seagal had done to piss off so many people. Anyway, throw in Tomlinson, the loveable hippy philosopher, and a good time is had by all.

The story was a factually based account of a sunken boat and three missing people. Doc Ford's mission to get to the bottom of it led to South America, once again, as so many of Randy Wayne White's books do. The first time I was reading a RWW novel, he lost me on the jump to South America. I'm not sure which one it was, or why I couldn't make the leap to South America. I blame it mostly on my having the attention span of a 2-year old. But, I stuck with him this time, and off to South America we went. I suspect when a group of highly-paid, professional mercenaries end up going to South America to rescue kidnap victims from what is apparently an entire continent full of entrepreneurial kidnappers, it's sort of like shooting fish in a barrel compared to REAL wartime efforts; pros going up against a bunch of amateurs with guns, a la Proof of Life, the Russel Crow movie about the same thing.

I liked this book quite a bit more than any other RWW novel I've read. I miss Tomlinson not being in the second half of the book, but I guess it would be out of character for him to participate in the inevitable bloodshed. Some of the features to watch for in this one are, talented octopi, Tomlinson becoming even more mystic to the point of psychic, and Doc Ford getting laid more than James Bond. There is plenty of action, too, including Doc Ford killing a man with his bare hands because he likes the personal touch.

That's all I've got on this one. Probably give it a year and I'll read it again.
I bought my husband a couple of Randy Wayne White novels because we were going on a mini vacation to Sanibel Island, FL and had plans to eat at Doc Fords while there. He didn't read them before the trip because he was in the middle of another large book. But upon his return, he read the 1st 2 I got him at lightning speed, and then went out of town. When he returned, he found a stack of ten or so, and proceeded to go through them rather quickly too. Then he went out of ton again so I got him another stack. He has slowed a little bit, but still glued to them. He says their is a little bit of repetitive set-up in each one because it has returning characters, and this is to be expected in serial novels. Over all though, the more he reads, the more he seems to be enjoying them. I don't guess it really matters which one you start with and which order you go in. Anyway, he loves fishing and the water, so I figured these would be his cup of tea. A few years back I got him Linda Greenlaw's books and he love those so much, he reread them several times. She writes a different kind of novel, but the fishing and sea thread is there and tha's all it takes to get him "hooked".
Randy Wayne White is on my short list for entertaining reads and Doc Ford is one of the more developed and interesting fictional characters I’ve followed. White brings a fresh environmental storyline to his novels ensuring that even after living in Florida for more than 30 years; I still come away learning something about the sunshine state. This read is unique in that it includes aspects of the story that are based on actual events which you learn in the closing pages. White’s experience on the water brings to life the smallest of details that puts the reader out in the waves, smelling the salt brine and feeling the sensation of rolling waves breaking overhead. People missing at sea, human trafficking, travel into the jungles of South America and Dinkins Bay; what more could you ask for in a single novel? It’s a solid enjoyable read by a master of his craft.