North of Havana

By Randy Wayne White

Book Overview

From the author of last year's much-praised Captiva comes another top-shelf thriller (Booklist) featuring Florida marine biologist Doc Ford. Randy Wayne White takes us places that no other Florida mystery writer could hope to find.--Carl Hiaasen.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399142428
• ISBN13: 9780399142420
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

One of my all time favorite writers

RWW is always excellent! I have read his 1st five books this last year- normally I get bored with authors and will not read more than 2 a year. Each story is very different from the previous yet is very much part of the series. Each character seems authentic and with a voice unique from the others. Most authors seem to have trouble doing this - their characters talk from the roughly the same voice or perspective. This story might have been a little slow but RWW writes so well I don't mind. Plenty of suprises big & subtle. As always good characters, fast paced dialogue,action and emotion. Once again I'm dissappointed to be finished. On to book 6!

Another good read

Like the rest of the Doc Ford novels, it's well worth the time.

The next best thing to Travis McGee

If you liked MacDonald's McGee series, you'll like Randy Wayne White. And this is the best of them. Very readable, well plotted and fun.

This is Randy Wayne White's best book.

A little less than a year ago I was attending summer classes at the University of Florida and I had some extra time on my hands. I had never been a big reader, but one of my roomates gave me a copy of Sanibel Flats (White's first book) to read. Since then I have read all of the Doc Ford novels and have become a huge fan. North of Havana has become one of my favorite books of all time. I am a born and raised Floridian with a love of fishing. In fact it is only a short boat ride from my house to Sanibel Island. North of Havana captured me from the beginning. I am in awe of the "world in Cuba" so there was a natural attraction to the book. I have also followed Doc Ford's relationship with Dewey Nye through the previous books. In fact I would recomend reading his previous books to fully understand the special relationship between them. I also love the way White brought back Pilar, Doc's former lover, at the end of the book. White has revived me as a dedicated reader and I can not wait for more to come.

A fun, unusual thriller

"No good deed goes unpunished." This about sums up the plot of Randy Wayne White's NORTH OF HAVANA, but by itself can't do justice to the story's twists and turns, its unusual characters, and its setting in Castro's decaying Cuba. "Doc" Ford goes to Cuba to spring his old hippy buddy Tomlinson, who (for reasons not immediately clear) sailed too near the island and had his sailboat impounded. "Doc" has good reasons not to go, mostly because of his previous activities in Cuba on behalf of shadowy Federal agencies, but including service as Fidel's Yanqui catcher for an exhibition baseball game (!) during which he had a serious dispute on the mound with "El Pitcher Maximo" which Castro - notorious for nursing grudges - is unlikely to forgive or forget. A complication is the appearance of another friend who needs his help: Dewey, a lesbian athlete on the rebound from a shattered love affair. But he and Dewey, posing as a tourist couple (and with $10,000 US stuffed in a mone