Dead of Night

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Later, my conscience would play the inevitable game of "What if . . ." What if I had stopped by Jobe's home on Friday morning instead of Sunday night? What if I hadn't interrupted the two people who were alternately interrogating and beating him? Would he have lived? Or would he have died? And what would have happened then?

It started when Doc Ford got a call from his old friend Frieda Matthews; her reclusive biologist brother, Jobe, wasn't answering the phone-could Doc check up on him? Ford can't think of a reason not to, but soon he will think of a hundred. Not only will it be one of the worst scenes he has ever encountered, the consequences will draw him into the heart of a nightmare. A catastrophe is coming to Florida, and just maybe there is something Ford can do about it-but he doesn't know how or where or when . . . or even if he is already too late.

Brimming with the remarkable prose and rich atmosphere that have won White so many fans already, and featuring some of the best characters in suspense fiction today, Dead of Night is White's biggest thriller yet.

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I've read better.......2007-09-27

I am certainly a fan of this genre of novel; however I have found Dark of Night so full of superfluous material, which has no bearing on the plot itself, that I am tempted to wonder if Mr. White is being paid by the word by his publisher for his output.
I know he can do better than this.

Go right, read White.......2007-04-08

It's been two decades since John D. MacDonald passed away. A gifted storyteller who had published several dozen books from the 1950s until his death, MacDonald was particularly noted for his series of novels featuring Travis McGee. Over the years, there has been many attempts to create a worthy follow-up to McGee. Randy Wayne White, with his Doc Ford novels, is the writer who has succeeded.

Of course, there are distinct differences between McGee and Ford. McGee was more-or-less a beach bum who took his retirement in pieces, amassing funds on occasion doing dangerous "salvage" work. Ford is a retired government assassin who now works as a marine biologist and only reluctantly gets involved in adventures. The similarities, however, are also significant: both live in Florida by the ocean and are members of a close-knit beach community. They both take on particularly nasty characters and have near-genius sidekicks. Most importantly, both characters are also the narrators of their stories and lace their tales with plenty of cynical observations of the Florida life.

In Dead of Night, the twelfth Doc Ford novel, the hero is recruited by an old friend Frieda to check on her brother Jobe, a brilliant but extremely withdrawn scientist. Her brother has never been very communicative, but when Frieda realizes Ford will be roughly in Jobe's neighbor, she asks him for the favor. When Ford arrives at Jobe's home, he discovers the scientist between tortured by a man and woman. Ford chases the two off, but when he returns, he finds Jobe dead by hanging. That's bad enough, but when worms start crawling out of the corpse, Ford knows something really creepy is going on.

The worms turn out to be parasites native to Africa and there is apparently a conspiracy to infest the local waters with them, where the damage would be considerable. Ford's training is enough to clue him into the real dangers; he is further drawn in when his old boss, Hal Harrington, recruits him to find and "eternalize" the bioterrorist.

If Dead of Night suffers from anything, it's that the villains aren't quite as interesting as in other Ford books. The main villain, an evil-but-beautiful Russian woman named Dasha has her moments - and the other bad guys also have their quirks - but they just aren't that compelling. Maybe it's just because they pale in comparison to the creatures they threaten to unleash, of which the worms are only one species. Some of these animals will really make the reader squirm.

Of the recurring characters, we get some nice new developments. Ford, in particular, must deal with his erstwhile girlfriend Dewey, who has moved to Iowa carrying their child. He also starts coming more to terms with his dark past and the fact that he can never completely retire from it. Meanwhile, best friend Tomlinson must cope with unexpected wealth; anti-materialistic by philosophy, he must cope with also enjoying money and what it can buy.

Randy Wayne White fans should be happy with this latest book, which like his others, does not disappoint. If you have never read White, this may not be the best place to start, but it also stands alone well.

Great book; just a couple of quibbles........2007-03-20

I thoroughly enjoyed Dead of Night, as I've enjoyed all the Doc Ford books. There are just a couple of things that stopped me cold and brought me out of the experience.
1. In chapter 14, Doc has printed out a series of articles on the guinea flea, and mentions the "sheath of papers" sitting on a chair. As an educated man, he ought to know it's a "sheaf" of papers, unless he's talking about the envelope they're in.

2. Doc refers to Ransom being his "only living relative". Then what does he consider Laken? How is a son not a living relative? This isn't said to someone, where Doc might be trying to shield his son, it's in the narrative of the book, where we the audience certainly aren't a threat.

Maybe I'm being too picky, but what are editors for?

Not Doc Ford.......2006-12-19

This seems like a practice run for the Doc Ford books. Same training and all, different main character. A little gruesome losing his whole family. But other than that it was a good read.

Dead of Night.......2006-11-04

Randy Wayne White began writing suspense novels under the name Randy Striker in 1981. The hero of his first books was Mac Morgen. He began writing under his real name and changed his hero to Doc Ford in 1990. His first was Sanibel Flats. He has written two more novels since Dead of Night; Dark Light, published in 2006 and Hunter's Moon, soon to be released. Dead of night, as with most of his Doc Ford novels, bears a striking resemblance to the writings of John D. MacDonald's Travis Magee series with a smattering of Philip Wylie's Crunch and Des short stories (the name of the local marina cat is Crunch and Des).
His novels take place in and around a marina on the west coats of Florida, near Sanibel and Captiva islands. Doc Ford is a retired government agent trying to earn a living collecting marine samples for schools and research labs. He lives in a "fish house" that also serves as his lab. From here he helps friends and locals when they need his special sort of expertise. Doc Ford has a side-kick named Tomlinson who lives aboard his boat. In Dead of Night, Doc Ford is called upon by an old friend to check on her brother. What Doc finds could have devistating effects on the entire state. Doc and Tomlinson try to prevent this from hapening.

Eco-Terrorism: Radical Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements

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Eco-Terrorism: Radical Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements
Donald R. Liddick
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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ASIN: 0275985350

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Radical environmentalism and its progeny, "eco-terrorism," is a modern phenomenon. It is a movement far removed from the elite conservationists of the late 1800s and the mainstream environmental groups that emerged later. Drawn from the same pool of concerned individuals who comprise memberships in groups like Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and the Wilderness Society, disaffected environmentalists have turned from political lobbying to direct action in the form of widespread property destruction and other types of crime and terror. Here, the author exposes the activities of radical groups determined to make their mark in the movement to protect the earth and its creatures from those they view as predators. He covers the major groups as well as less well-known ones and provides a careful portrait of who they are, what they do, and how to address them. The growth, from the 1980s through the present day, of organizations involved in eco-terror is noticeable and significant. Such groups have caused millions of dollars worth of damage throughout the country. The FBI estimates that the ALF/ELF have committed more than 600 criminal acts in the United States since 1996, resulting in damages in excess of $43 million. Tactics include pulling up survey stakes, tree-spiking, arson, and other methods. Most groups will claim responsibility for their actions, just as other types of terrorist groups will take responsibility for theirs. Eco-Terrorism takes an objective look at the most radical groups and their terrorist activities in the United States, including case examples and analysis of the methods and rhetoric the groups employ. It uncovers the losses both to individuals and the community as a result of these methods, and it describes the ideologies, motivations, history, and activities of the political movements that have been labeled environmental terrorism.

Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror

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A "Mental Adventure"
A Valuable Look at Methods of a Movement
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF ANIMAL RIGHTS
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Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror
Lee Hall
Manufacturer: Nectar Bat Press
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Guided by a revolutionary spirit, Capers in the Churchyard offers a fresh examination of conduct within a movement that has historically focused on the conduct of others. While noting the contradictions between the acts and claims of high-profile activists who strike the militant pose, Capers in the Churchyard uncovers the thinking under a spectrum of human ways of regarding the use of other animals. This lively and agile analysis will appeal to anyone interested in the dynamic of ethical movements, especially those hoping to define the advocates best role in addressing the urgent questions of our age.

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A "Mental Adventure".......2006-09-14

Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror is a swift read, but a long mental journey. I feel the same sentiments as Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson when he writes in the book's foreward, "[The author, Lee Hall] thinks further than I have thought about certain areas, and I am thrilled to be able to follow her on this extraordinary mental adventure." Indeed, while reading the book, I was introduced to ways of thinking that are different from anything I have ever read in the literature, or heard at the conferences I've attended.

In this thin volume, Hall explores what the philosophy of animal rights was, is, and could potentially be. In Hall's view, the modern animal rights movement is actually an animal welfare movement in masquerade. For instance, the term `humane slaughter' is just as ironic as the idea that thousands of animals can be freed from cages each year only to be replaced by more animals in those very cages.

In a nutshell, Hall writes that "the guiding principle here isn't to help [animals], but to aspire not to interfere." If animals were not interfered with in the first place, they would not be subject to exploitation. The most basic step one can take to stop interfering with animals is to stop consuming animal products. The cessation of other interferences will soon follow. Essentially, Hall's vision is for the animal rights movement to become "the most comprehensive peace movement ever known."

One of the most striking points in the book is the idea that graphic images of animal exploitation serve to promote animal welfare not animal rights. The fact is we shouldn't need these graphic images to tell us all the horrors of animal use. All we need to know is that animals are being used against their will. And that is wrong.

Overall, of course, Hall denounces violence (unto other animals, unto other humans, unto ourselves, and unto the environment we all share). I fell right into stride with Hall on this idea. For those of us who don't feel we fit in with the passiveness of animal welfarists nor the violence of other activists, and who strictly oppose the exploitation of other beings, we have a comrade in Lee Hall.

A Valuable Look at Methods of a Movement.......2006-09-04

(Originally posted on SuperVegan.com)

Recent headlines bring news that attacks on laboratories by animal rights extremists in Britain have declined by as much as fifty percent in the past year. The reasoning for this is certainly complicated, but most definitely interesting to consider for those active in the animal rights movement. Shedding light on the issue of terrorism and animal rights is Lee Hall's new book Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror (Nectar Bat Press, July 2006), with an introduction by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Hall is the current legal director for the group Friends of Animals and authors the column, "Movement Watch."

While the book seems to meander between many topics in a somewhat unstructured manner, many of the topics take head on issues within the animal rights movement most are too cautious to approach. The subtitle of the book speaks to the larger issue on the minds of many as the terms terrorist and animal rights activist are all too commonly linked in the minds of those in government and the media. Though tactics such as boycotts, protests, and undercover investigations are by no means terrorist acts, other acts committed by certain groups and individuals with the clear intent of invoking fear, and arguably terror, in particular individuals to promote an animal rights agenda are causing this connection, an issue to which Hall's book speaks. By looking at the Newchurch, England campaign against a family-run farm where guinea pigs were breed which took place over a six-year span from which the book takes its title, as well as others, Hall questions some of the contradictions of the tactics of more aggressive campaigns.

Additionally, much of the controversy for Lee Hall comes from the reoccurring disagreements within the movement between the welfarist vs. abolitionist mentality. For example, the discussion of the use of birth control by the state to control the population of wild horses has brought divisive lines between the campaign work of groups such as Friends of Animals, arguably abolitionist, and the Humane Society, arguably welfarist. Hall writes, "The welfare group's agreement to add another layer of control over the animals without disturbing their valuation as resources distinguishes animal welfare management from an animal-rights approach." This is not to say that all of the topics addressed are boiled down to a polarity between these points, however it is clearly an issue of great contention and Hall addresses the issue on many different fronts throughout the book.

The book is a good read for those looking to examine tactics within the movement and consider what the larger implications of these campaign tactics may be beyond the particular campaign and how it may be perceived by those outside the movement. Though it's hard to imagine handing someone on the street the "Handy Pull-Out Guide to Animal Rights" and having the reader understand what it is we as a movement really want to happen and how, the point that the movement should have something so straight forward and handy is not lost. Book such as Hall's cause those of us within the movement to take the time to examine in what direction we are going and how best we might achieve the ends which we seek to achieve.

HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF ANIMAL RIGHTS.......2006-09-02

This is absolutely the best book ever written on animal rights, what works and what does not. I rarely get speechless, but I don't know where to start (or stop) praising Lee Hall for outlining the path we must follow to achieve true abolition of humanity's custom of enslaving any beings defined as non-human.

But Capers in the Churchyard is much more than that. To quote Hall, "The advent of animal rights philosophy would mean the most comprehensive peace movement ever known. Not only would it turn swords into ploughshares; it would dedicate those ploughshares to an agriculture of peace."

I finished the book at 3 am --it was a page-turner. I just couldn't put it down. The book is really hard to discuss in detail within the confines of a brief summary, because every word of it deserves discussion. This book will clear away the convoluted notions that proliferate within the advocacy community. It will allow the reader to appreciate the simplicity and effectiveness of nonviolence. I plan to use it as a topic amongst animal-rights discussion fora; it will be my leading reference book.

Lee Hall is hope personified.

Chris Kelly

An almost masterpiece.......2006-08-16

Caper's in the Churchyard: Animal Rights in the Age of Terror is an almost masterpiece. I say almost because the book ends just where it needs to begin.

Hall's book is so powerful and convincing in its analysis of the modern day animal rights movement that you'd be hard-pressed to find any glaring errors; she takes on the whole movement, and many of its Sacred Cows, to make the point that there really barely IS a rights movement; in the United States, at least, it's about welfare, not rights, and much of the sheer stupidity exhibited by many of those in positions of power and visibility within the movement do nothing more than mock the movement as a whole.

Much of this book is about violence, and how brutality in any of its manifestations is completely antithetical to animal rights. That's the part of this book that is stunningly brilliant. Hall minces no words in taking to task the multitudes who argue violence as a necessary form of direct action of behalf of animals. Hall instead argues that animal rights, by its very nature, is a peace movement. She is passionate, articulate and persuasive in making the case.

This book should be required reading for every person involved in the Animal Rights/Vegan community.

But I do have a complaint: Lee Hall does one heck of a job deconstructing the mess that is Animal Rights, but what she fails to do (and to be fair, doesn't attempt) is to outline what the movement could or should be. For me, this is a glaring omission. After feeling very inspired by her words, I found myself feeling very lost, too. Where do we go from here?

That said, this book impacted me more than any other book on the subject that I've ever read. Period. I'm crossing my finger's that Hall becomes a louder voice in a community full of loud-mouths---people who are more interested, it seems, in being provocative, shocking and offensive than in changing the course of public opinion.

Read this book. Please.

Compelling and thought-worthy.......2006-08-07

"[I]f any domination is reinforced so is the whole culture that's based on hierarchy and that teaches hierarchy," writes legal scholar and animal advocate Lee Hall, in Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror. Released July 2006, Hall's book is essentially about domination and subordination (primarily of nonhumans, but also of human animals) that has become pervasive throughout the animal rights' movement.

Drawing a compelling comparison between the non-abolitionist sector of animal rights' activists-that is, those who do not ask for nonhuman animals' complete freedom-and those who use violence to attempt to achieve the end goal of animal rights, Hall's work states that neither of these groups believe true animal freedom can be achieved in our lifetimes. And that, apparently, is enough to give up on the goal of even working towards it.

Hall challenges those who believe violence works, asking, "Copying the activities of war-makers or soldiers forcing people to behave or not to behave in certain ways-this perpetuates the daily social control by some authoritative force. Other people are not the enemy of animal rights; if there is an enemy at all, it is the tendency to depersonalize them." In other words, violence has been the mainstream for so long that peace would be the truly revolutionary change.

Both participating in violent solutions and working towards getting animals' bigger cages are ways of working within the system. What we need is a radical change where hierarchies are abolished, whether that means man over woman, white over black, or human over nonhuman.

Does throwing a flower pot at a bunch of clerks or digging up a grave really work if our end goal is to eliminate hierarchies and the violence that contaminates them? Hall, and writer-psychologist Jeffrey Masson, who authored the book's foreword, do not believe so. Indeed, Masson writes, "I have an old and very strong opinion about emotions: they cannot be forced." Masson than goes on to say the best method for convincing others is persuasion. After all, if a person truly changes how he or she is thinking, he or she can convince others of what he or she has learned. "If he merely desists out of fear, he will not carry any kind of message to others, but will feel resentment, which is sure to find expression is some different act of cruelty."

Masson and Hall ask us to think seriously about the best in activism and how to model a completely new idea for others who might have never thought about it. When our own diets and our whole lives stand for treating others with respect, we are in the best position to convince others we're on to something big. -L.Long

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A new slant on kidnapping
Gripping Kidnapping Drama

Paradise Lost: A Novel Of Suspense
Taffy Cannon
Manufacturer: Perseverance Press
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ASIN: 1880284804

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The private calm of Paradise Plaza, a posh Santa Barbara health spa, is shattered when two guests are kidnapped during an early morning hike. Stanford junior Holly Constantine and hot TV star Vanessa Wyatt form an uneasy alliance in their sensory-deprived captivity, while an unorthodox Internet ransom demand from a group of eco-nuts calling itself Parks for People seeks public contributions to create California parks in unlikely locations. Holly's parents, Beverly Hills entertainment lawyers, hold the media at bay as they coordinate the ransom funding. A determined stalker, old secrets, and a murder complicate the race against the clock. Includes elements of the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the Chowchilla schoolbus abduction, and the Leopold & Loeb case.

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A new slant on kidnapping.......2005-11-24

I have thoroughly enjoyed Taffy Cannons' earlier straight murder mysteries and her "cozies" [as Emily Toll]. She has surpassed herself with "Paradise Lost".

She has given a fresh coat of paint to the complexity and possible motives of a kidnapping. The young female victim and her powerhouse mother are engrossing characters. The villains are 21st. Century technophiles with some age-old lowlife mixed in.

We are taken on a journey through the minds of the principle characters giving us a panoramic view of the caper and it's effect on all the players. Ms. Cannon doesn't fail to provide her usual historical and other, just plain interesting, asides which blend right in and add seasoning to the story.

I feel "Paradise Lost" ranks with any bestseller thriller I have read and I have read most of them. My only disappointment was that it wasn't a hardcover with a $26.50 price tag. I think it should have been. I look forward to Ms. Cannons' next venture into crime.

Gripping Kidnapping Drama.......2005-10-24

Returning to Paradise Plaza was not Holly Constantine's first choice for her Spring Break. But arguing with her mom, Hollywood lawyer Connie Constantine, was always a useless task, so the Stanford junior found herself once again at the "fat farm" in the hills above Santa Barbara.

Holly's favorite activity at Paradise Plaza is the early morning hike. Looking forward to it her first morning there, Holly's not disappointed to find there will be only one other guest, actress Vanessa Wyatt. With their instructor promising a trip to the waterfall, the three women set out.

Part way up the trail, the three women are attacked and Holly and Vanessa are kidnapped. A ransom demand has been left on Paradise Plaza's web site. The kidnappers are demanding eight million dollars but not for themselves. It's supposed to go into a trust, administered by Connie, and used to establish public parks in three California cities. While the FBI tries to track down any leads, money begins pouring in to the account. Connie struggles with newfound emotions while trying to keep her tough demeanor. Holly and Vanessa, meanwhile, are chained to the walls of a basement wondering what will happen to them. Will the FBI find them? Will their captors really release them when the ransom comes in?

Taffy Cannon is a master of the multiple viewpoint crime novel, and this book is a prime example. The point of view shifts between Holly, Connie, the police, and even the captors, giving the reader the full view long before the characters get it. Naturally, this increases the suspense as we hope each misstep will be the villain's fatal flaw.

Ms. Cannon is also a master of creating vivid characters, which only make her stories more gripping. Holly is an early favorite here, but Connie also becomes sympathetic before the story is over.

This book is not as cozy as I normally read, or as cozy as the books Ms. Cannon writes under the pen name Emily Toll. Even so, I found the story gripping and the characters engaging. The book is well worth reading.

The Environmental Mafia: The Enemy Is Us

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A thoughtful discussion

The Environmental Mafia: The Enemy Is Us
Richard O'Leary
Manufacturer: Algora Publishing
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ASIN: 0875861598

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Richard O'Leary questions the validity of some (or much) of the agenda of the environmental movement in the U.S., and documents his case with detailed examples of the enormous dangers created by uncontrolled bureaucratic Kafka-esque regulators operating in the name of the higher good. Such regulations and actions sometimes have effects opposite to what was intended, serving neither the environment nor society. As more and more of suburban America is discovering, re-introduced or protected species (bears, deer, geese, etc.) that outstrip the available habitat create safety and sanitation problems for themselves and for humans. O'Leary weaves together a passionate narrative with news articles, studies by the National Center for Public Policy Research and others, and profiles of families whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed (for no apparent purpose) in the name of environmental protection. Most of the events occurred in the West, but the lessons may apply nationwide.

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Westerner Richard O'Leary loves the wilderness, but he loves American liberties too - and he says that extreme environmentalism is trampling on our rights every day.

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A thoughtful discussion.......2003-09-21

This book made me think about the things I see and hear every day. It is a viewpoint that is unique and thought provking. I would recommend this book to individuals who are actively investigating the cultural and political cutlures in our country, and who are interested in developing a balanced world view.

Burning Rage : The Growing Anger Within My Country

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Burning Rage : The Growing Anger Within My Country
Barry R. Clausen
Manufacturer: North Amer Research
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ASIN: 097000379X

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True detective by America's most controversial private investigator. The book covers Clausen's personal involvment in the Unabomber case as well as the questionable murder conviction of Native American Leonard Peltier. It also covers environmental/animal rights terrorism. The book has been featured in several magazines, on numerous radio talk shows and as part of a feature story (four times)on a Fox News documentary.

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Coyote
Brian Brett
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Coyote is a high energy thriller, introducing Detective Janwar Singh. With vivid, sometimes hilarious replays of some of Coyote's most outrageous coups, we are led down a trail where nothing is as it seems. The technology of modern policing draws endless blanks, the hunter goes round in circles, and Brian Brett's own sardonic view of our planet's destiny slides in through the narrative like a trickster's stiletto. Brett strikes perfect notes in keeping the reader turning the pages in this elaborate mystery. His descriptions of West Coast beauty and his insights into the human psyche drain away all the cliches that have been invented to explain why people commit the most terrible crimes. Coyote reminds us that the truth may not be stranger than fiction.

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Ecoterrorism (Library in a Book)
Douglas Long
Manufacturer: Facts on File
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A Fine Line
A fine Brady Coyne novel

A Fine Line
William G. Tapply
Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Walter Duffy was the world's leading bird photographer until an accident crippled him. So Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, an old friend, makes a point of visiting him in his bird-filled garden terrace--until the day Brady finds him lying next to his crutches, fatally bashed in the back of the head. Was it an accident or murder? Where is Walter's college-age son, who was also his much abused household helper? Who keeps calling Brady at odd hours, tipping him off to upcoming arson fires? And what's it all got to do with a packet of letters allegedly written by Meriwether Lewis?

This is Brady Coyne's 19th solo outing, and fans will find their hero just as likable, even-tempered, and incorruptible as ever. They'll also appreciate his growing relationship with companion Eve Banyon (who may be unrealistically gorgeous and devoted, but whose presence gives rise to one of the best sex-in-a-thunderstorm scenes you'll read this year). The suspense in A Fine Line is on the mild side, and the slightly disconnected plot concludes with a too-neat wrap-up. But you'll still enjoy reading Tapply for his fully fleshed people, his evocation of Boston, and his lean prose, which--as always--goes down as smoothly as 16-year-old single malt. --Nicholas H. Allison

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Walt Duffy spent his life traveling the world, documenting the beauty and wonder of nature through the lens of a camera. But there was nothing natural about the ugly way he died, his skull fractured by an unknown assailant, his broken body left sprawled right in his own backyard. The irony wasn't lost on Boston attorney Brady Coyne. He first met Duffy while handling his divorce a decade earlier, and their relationship evolved into a working friendship. He knew Duffy well, or so Brady thought. That belief is about to be put to the test when Coyne is brought in for questioning by both the local police and the FBI, who reveal Duffy's ties to a notorious ecoterrorist group that is currently setting fires to homes and offices around the Boston area. And when Brady begins to get mysterious calls in the middle of the night, warning of the next fire to be set, he knows that he has become an unwilling pawn in a chess game with the deadliest of consequences.

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A Fine Line.......2004-01-07

"A Fine Line" is the 19th Brady Coyne novel by William G. Tapply. Walt Duffy, a renowned ornithologist who was left paralyzed by a fall, asks his attorney and friend, Brady Coyne to deliver some letters supposedly written by Meriwether Lewis to Benjamin Frye, a rare book dealer, for authentication. Shortly after Brady delivers the letters, he finds Walt Duffy dead in his backyard. The police think it is murder. Duffy's son, Ethan, is also missing. Benjamin Frye gives the letters back to Brady, and shortly thereafter Frye is found dead in a warehouse fire. Brady feels that his life may be in danger because it appears someone will stop at nothing to obtain those rare letters. Brady needs to find Ethan Duffy and the murderer who appears to be a member of the radical ecoterrorist group, SOLF (Spotted Owl Liberation Front.) "A Fine Line" is also important concerning Brady's relationship with Evie. This is an excellent novel by William Tapply. Even after 19 Coyne novels, his plots are fresh and the suspense is riveting. "A Fine Line" is highly recommended.

A fine Brady Coyne novel.......2002-11-17

Every Tuesday, Boston lawyer Brady Coyne visits his friend Walt Duffy, once the foremost bird photographer in the country until he too had a bad fall and ended up a paraplegic. Now he lives in his Boston townhouse and spends much of his time bird watching in his garden. He lives with his college age son Ethan and their dog Henry. On Brady's latest visit, Walt asks him to get some letters appraised by antiquarian book dealer and fellow bird lover Ben Fyre.

The next day Walt asks Brady to visit him at his home but when the lawyer arrives he finds his friend/client dead with the police calling it a homicide. Ethan is nowhere to be found and Ben insists Brady take back the letters. When Ben is murdered too and Ethan remains missing, Brady finds himself in the middle of a FBI investigation involving eco-terrorists.

A Brady Coyne novel is always a treat and A FINE LINE is especially fine. It's cute watching Brady taking care of Nathan's dog Henry and decide whether or not he's brave enough to make a commitment to his girlfriend Eve. The plot is a clever adventure in misdirection and readers will find themselves caught up in the non-stop action of William G. Tapply's latest work.

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Every Fan of the Kirby Family will love it!.......2002-05-12

Pauline Baird Jones did a great job in letting Luke find his right match. "Missing you" is a great book not only for fans of the "Lonesome Lawman Series". Luke Kirby is trying to finds some peace. Seven years has gone by since he lost his wife to cancer and he still is missing her. Then we goes to the family cabin near the Rocky Mountain National Park he finds a woman inside the cabin who claims that she has lost her memory. Together they have to fight againt terrorists and find out, who "Amelia" really is.

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