Summary
When solitary marine biologist Doc Ford focused his telescope on the woman in the white boat, he didn't know his life was about to be capsized: that his conniving uncle Tucker Gatrell would discover the Fountain of Youth, that The National Enquirer would write about it, and that the law would beat down his door in search of three missing men.
But Doc Ford is about to find these things out-- the hard way. Because in the shadowy world of Southwest Florida, where gators yawn, cattle craze, and Indian bones are buried, mysteries great and small have found the man to solve them...in The Man Who Invented Florida by bestselling author Randy Wayne White.
Randy Wayne White was born in 1950 in Ohio. He starting working for the Fort Myers News Press after graduating high school. He then got himself a captain's license and bought a used charter boat. He operated as a light tackle fishing guide at the Tarpon Bay Marina on Sanibel Island for several years.
He is now a writer of crime fiction and non-fiction. Several of his titles have made the New York Times best-seller list and he has received awards for his fiction works and television documentary. His most popular series of crime novels features NSA Agent Doc Ford, a marine biologist living on the Gulf Coast of Florida.
(Bowker Author Biography)
