Randy Wayne White Books in Order

MacMorgan is recruited to take out a terrorist cell hiding among the pampered clients of an exclusive Florida resort devoted to cosmetic surgery. Surrounded by the rich and ruthless, and falling for a woman he should not trust, he discovers he is not just the hunter but also a target.

As the Mariel boatlift floods Florida with refugees and criminals alike, CIA operators sent into Cuba start disappearing. The agency turns to Dusky MacMorgan, whose skills and Spanish are both sharp, to slip into the chaos and find out who is eliminating their people before he vanishes too.

Ex Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan thinks he has found peace as a Key West fishing guide until drug runners murder his family and leave their blood in the Gulf Stream. Armed with enough firepower to level an island, he goes after the killers and the corrupt senator who shelters them.

Fishing along the Ten Thousand Islands, Dusky MacMorgan and his friend Westy haul a naked woman from the water just as a nearby trawler explodes. She leads them to a secluded island run as a feminist utopia, where something far more sinister than empowerment is taking shape.

When an eccentric beachcomber shows Dusky MacMorgan a gold chain that may point to lost treasure, the man soon vanishes in what looks like a shark attack. Following the clues, MacMorgan dives into deep water filled with greed, betrayal, and people ready to kill for sunken gold.

Living easy in a stilt house off Fleming Key, Dusky MacMorgan is pulled back into trouble when April Yarborough, the daughter of an old friend, begs for help. A powerful force is using intimidation and violence to drive her extended family from their Everglades homestead, and MacMorgan fights back in the only way he knows.

When charter captain Wes O'Davis is framed for murder in Grand Cayman, he calls Dusky MacMorgan as his last hope. A kidnapped boy, a ticking ransom deadline, and international kidnappers with aristocratic prey on the hook give MacMorgan just three days to turn the tables.

Back in the city that cast him out, Hawker comes home to see an old friend who has become one of Chicago's richest power brokers. When that friend is gunned down on his own balcony, Hawker follows the money and the bodies through high rise boardrooms and back alley deals to deliver vengeance.

A failed hit on Hawker sends him to New York City to strike back at the Fister Corporation, a development empire that backs its real estate projects with murder. In the twisting streets of Greenwich Village, he fights fire with fire to stop a plan that will burn a neighborhood to the ground.

After disobeying orders during a school hostage crisis, Chicago cop James Hawker kills the gunman but loses his badge and career. Hired by a grieving father and given an unlimited budget, he launches a private war on the Florida drug ring he holds responsible for the slaughter.

Hawker heads to a battered Los Angeles neighborhood where two brutal gangs, the Panthers and the Santanas, are waging open war in the streets. Working without a badge, he plays the rivals against each other, aiming to break both crews before their blood feud destroys the community.

A young lawyer is kidnapped from her Detroit home by thugs who run a porn empire built on abducted women. Hawker follows the trail into the crumbling core of the city, infiltrating an industry of filth and fear to pull victims out and put the men who profit from them into the ground.

To shut down a modern slave ring, Hawker deliberately lets himself be captured at the Mexican border and shipped north in chains. Inside the operation he finds land barons using kidnapped migrants as disposable labor, and he is willing to put his own life on the line to bring the whole enterprise down.

In Las Vegas, Hawker teams up with Barbara Blaine, a savvy madam whose upscale brothel is under siege from a crime syndicate. As her lover vanishes and pressure turns violent, Hawker takes on mobsters who think Sin City belongs to them and learns how high the house is willing to stack the odds.

A string of predawn bombings is wiping out entire families around Washington, leaving the capital paralyzed. The culprits are a radical student group with a grand plan, but when Hawker steps onto their battlefield he brings the fight straight to the monuments and corridors of power.

Trying to live quietly as a marine biologist at Dinkin's Bay, former covert operative Doc Ford is dragged back into danger when an old friend begs him to help rescue his kidnapped son from a brutal regime in Central America.

This collection gathers some of Randy Wayne White's wildest true stories from years of travel and guiding, from chasing fish in remote rivers to covering the Mariel boatlift. The essays blend adventure, odd characters, and a dry sense of humor into sharply observed snapshots.

When Doc Ford discovers the body of a despised marina owner floating off Sanibel, a gentle fishing guide friend is blamed. To clear him, Doc has to expose a crooked tarpon tournament, shady land deals, and a killer who knows the islands as well as he does.

Doc Ford's irritable uncle Tucker claims to have found the Fountain of Youth on his Everglades land just as three men vanish in the nearby park. As the media and authorities close in, Doc must untangle family legends, real estate schemes, and murder in the backcountry.

A bitter fight between commercial netters and sport fishermen turns deadly along Florida's coast, and Doc Ford can no longer stay neutral. When arson and murder ignite the conflict, he finds himself chasing the money and politics behind a local feud that has become a private war.

An emergency call from his friend Tomlinson and a long lost lover pulls Doc Ford into Cuba, where his past as an anti Castro operative still casts a shadow. To save them, he has to navigate spies, treasure hunters, and old grudges in Havana's dangerous streets and harbors.

An old friend disappears after tangling with powerful people, and Doc Ford reluctantly agrees to help find her. The search pulls him from Florida's mangroves to distant waters, where revenge, stolen money, and a ruthless enemy leave him fighting to keep anyone from making it home.

In these nonfiction pieces White crisscrosses the globe, studying anti terrorist driving, hunting feral pigs, riding Iditarod sleds, and searching for legendary landlocked sharks. The result is a wry portrait of an adventurous life where the journey matters more than any trophy.

Years after a teenager found an ancient gold medallion on Florida's Gulf Coast and later died, her mother is being stalked and the girl's grave has been disturbed. Doc Ford's search for the missing medallion leads him into a world of looted artifacts, cult like rituals, and modern corruption.

On a working vacation in the Keys, Doc Ford notices two women whose jogging route makes them easy targets for a predator. When violence erupts, he is drawn into a tangled story of revenge, family secrets, and ruthless criminals who do not realize how dangerous their new opponent is.

Last Flight Out continues White's run of true tales, following him to places like Borneo, the Bahamas, Colombia, and his Ohio hometown. Whether he is diving a blue hole, racing an aging boxer, or stalking raccoons, he focuses on the strange, funny details that make travel unforgettable.

A pleasure trip offshore ends in disaster when a storm scatters a group of divers and only one makes it back alive. Hired to learn what really happened, Doc Ford must sift truth from lies, following a trail of greed and betrayal far beyond the twelve mile limit.

Drawing on his years as a charter captain, White teams up with professional chefs to share approachable recipes for what to do with a day's catch. The book mixes tropical flavors, practical tips, and stories from docks and kitchens into a relaxed, salty sided cookbook.

Part travelogue, part family chronicle, this book collects essays about White's adventures with his two sons and his own uneasy truce with middle age. From diving with great white sharks to jogging Mayan ruins and getting lost in Hanoi, he shows how exploration can reshape a life.

An old flame arrives at Dinkin's Bay convinced her real estate mogul husband, officially lost at sea, is still alive. Tracking the truth leads Doc Ford deep into the Everglades and into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader whose plan could destroy both people and fragile wetlands.

Doc Ford's past comes roaring back when the son he never knew is abducted by a vengeful ex dictator. To get the boy back, Ford must outthink a sadistic arsonist and walk a fine line between his old life as an assassin and the man he wants to be.

A series of grotesque deaths in rural Florida seems tied to a secretive research project and something that strikes only after dark. As panic spreads, Doc Ford races to uncover who is weaponizing nature and how to stop a predator no one fully understands.

After a massive hurricane reshapes the Gulf bottom, an elderly woman asks Doc Ford to find the wreck of the boat that vanished with her lover during a clandestine World War Two rendezvous. The search uncovers long buried secrets, dangerous treasure, and people willing to kill to keep the past hidden.

This hybrid of cookbook and memoir pairs more than a hundred Gulf Coast recipes with photos of Tarpon Bay and food rich passages from White's essays and novels. It is as much about friends, boats, and weather as it is about what ends up on the plate.

A weekend at a high end hunting lodge is supposed to be a break for Doc Ford and friends. When a political assassination shatters the illusion of safety, Ford finds himself tracking a professional killer through woods filled with armed men, where he may be the next trophy.

A brilliant young woman with a lethal gift keeps leaving dead men behind her, and Doc Ford is asked to find out why. His pursuit of the elusive widow draws him into a maze of espionage, obsession, and revenge that stretches far beyond Florida's borders.

After a Minnesota teenager is kidnapped in a bungled grab for a United States senator, Doc Ford is given a brutal ultimatum and only thirty six hours to act. The boy is not what his captors think, and Ford's rescue mission turns into a deadly chess game spanning Havana and the heartland.

A simple dive on a remote Florida lake goes horribly wrong when a cave collapses, trapping Tomlinson and a troubled teen far below the surface. Doc Ford reaches daylight to seek help, only to be held at gunpoint by escaped convicts who want him to raise a legendary, gold laden wreck.

Part history, part anthology, this hefty volume collects classic and modern writing about tarpon and the birth of big game fishing. White and co editor Carlene Brennen weave together stories, photos, and lore about the guides, anglers, lodges, and waters that made Southwest Florida famous.

In a shabby trailer park locals call Little Guadalajara, a teenage girl witnesses a killing and vanishes into an underground world of migrant workers and coyotes. Doc Ford and Tomlinson search for her through a hidden landscape of fear, corruption, and people who exploit the powerless.

At an exclusive party on a private island, environmental extremists or hired killers seize control and threaten to execute a hostage every hour until their demands are met. Cut off from the outside world, Doc Ford must move in the dark and under water to stop a massacre before midnight.

When a young woman from the Florida interior disappears after falling for the wrong man, fishing guide and part time investigator Hannah Smith is asked to find her. The trail leads through sugar country, offshore boats, and the kind of predator Hannah refuses to let walk away.

Strange lights in the night sky, a decades old plane crash, and a new murder in rural Florida all seem to be connected. As Doc Ford digs into local legends and buried secrets, he uncovers a plot that proves far more human and dangerous than any rumored visitation.

Hannah looks into an old smuggling era murder just as a slick outfit starts pressuring her neighbors to donate land and money to a new frontier museum. She soon discovers the museum is a con hiding a ruthless real estate scheme that could erase her entire hometown.

This collection gathers many of White's favorite nonfiction pieces, including adventures that took him from Peruvian streets to Cuban harbors and back to his Florida yard. New Doc Ford themed essays sit alongside earlier travel and fishing stories, offering a behind the scenes look at the life that feeds the novels.

A woman's disappearance and a deadly cave in at a phosphate mine draw Doc Ford into the murky trade in fossils and stolen bones. What begins as a search for answers turns into a fight against people who see Florida's ancient past as something to strip mine and sell.

A wealthy widow hires Hannah Smith to investigate a historic coastal mansion that may have hosted a bloody Civil War skirmish and a pair of suspicious deaths. While developers circle and locals whisper about ghosts, Hannah uncovers very human obsessions that are far more dangerous than any haunting.

Hiding in Latin America after the CIA marks him for death, Hawker is drawn back toward the United States by an anticommunist colonel fighting a dirty war. From the jungles of Belize to the streets of Atlanta, he battles enemies who wear both uniforms and suits, all while trying to stay one step ahead of his own government.

When illicit letters from Fidel Castro surface along with a mysterious baseball connection, Doc Ford is pulled into a storm of Cuban politics, smuggling, and personal history. To protect his friends, he has to walk a line between old loyalties and new betrayals across the Florida Straits.

A young mother flees with her children to a remote Rocky Mountain cabin, hoping distance will keep them safe from men who want something from her father. Hawker intervenes just in time to stop a sniper's bolt, then turns the high country into a killing ground where only one side will walk out.

Hawker targets Con Ye Cwong, a former North Vietnamese secret police chief who has reinvented himself as a global drug lord and arms dealer. To stop the flow of weapons and heroin, Hawker must destroy a man who treats addicted soldiers as commodities and sells tools of terror to the highest bidder.

Someone has marked Doc Ford for elimination, using modern surveillance, cyber attacks, and carefully staged strikes to dismantle his life. To survive, he must identify a faceless enemy, untangle an international plot, and decide how much of his old covert self he is willing to unleash.

Florida's citrus industry is under siege from a mysterious blight, and Hannah is drawn into a hunt for surviving trees grown from the first orange seeds planted five centuries ago. Her search through remote swamps tangles with a twenty year old murder and people willing to kill for a single grove.

A legendary Keys guide comes to Doc Ford convinced his family is cursed by a 1920s mass murder tied to an isolated lake. As Ford and Tomlinson investigate a string of recent attacks from Key Largo to north Florida, they encounter a present day killer who may be using that old horror as a blueprint.

Asked to keep an eye on a risky salvage operation in the Caribbean, Doc Ford finds himself competing with ruthless treasure hunters and shadowy officials. Sunken cargo, aging weapons, and fragile reefs all become pieces in a race where the real prize is staying alive.

New to Florida, Luke teams up with Cuban sisters Maribel and Sabina when Doc Ford hires them to help tag migrating blacktip sharks. As Sharks Inc., the trio learns boat skills and marine science while outsmarting ruthless poachers who kill sharks for their fins.

When human remains wash up near Dinkin's Bay, old secrets from Tomlinson's past and Doc Ford's circle rise with them. The investigation into a long ago crime forces Ford to confront what friendship, forgiveness, and justice really mean in a small community that has seen too much.

Doc Ford and Captain Hannah Smith bring Sharks Inc. to a small Bahamian island overrun by invasive lionfish and haunted by pirate legends. When the kids stumble on old treasure and modern day thieves, they have to protect fragile reefs and keep one step ahead of desperate adults.

Sent to a remote stretch of Sanibel called the Bone Field to search for a rare orange tree, the Sharks Inc. crew finds a massive saltwater crocodile, a reclusive neighbor, and eerie stories of a Calusa king. Their investigation uncovers an illegal reptile business and a secret worth guarding.

During a high profile tarpon tournament on Sanibel, a million dollar prize tempts anglers to cheat and abuse the fish they claim to honor. With Doc Ford's help, Sharks Inc. works to expose a social media hungry team that stages cruel stunts and nearly destroys a legendary tarpon.

After a deadly hurricane batters Florida's Gulf Coast, Doc Ford faces chaos both natural and man made. A vanished Russian diplomat, brutal gangsters who exploit the storm to loot and kill, and a serial killer known as the Vulture Monk force him to fight for Hannah, their child, and Dinkin's Bay itself.

When Tomlinson's sailboat shatters on a Honduran reef, he swears he died and was briefly revived by a runaway boy descended from the last Mayan king. As corrupt officials hunt the child and a massive earthquake tears Mesoamerica apart, Doc Ford races jungle trails and shattered cities to save his friend and the young heir.