Too much bad drama and dysfunction in this Doc Ford book for my liking. The plot was a bit thick and not terribly interesting. I thought that the characters were a bit off in this one as well.

But it is well-written and in places very smartly written so it is a solid 3-1/2 to 4 stars... and I will give it the bump up. ( )

In all his life, no matter who he was with, Marion "Doc" Ford had been passionately, irresponsibly in love with only one woman. Her name was Pilar, and she was married to a thuggish politico named Balserio in a country where Ford was working undercover. When Ford had to run, it was with a bounty on his head and, unknown to him then, a legacy: Pilar was pregnant. Now, many years later, out of power and consumed with the desire for revenge, Balserio has kidnapped the boy and taken him to his new home base in Florida. What makes it worse is the man he has used: a local legend named Praxcedes, his face a network of burns, whose own favorite instrument of amusement is the lighted match ( )

http://tamaranth.blogspot.com/2009/07/52-tampa-burn-randy-wayne-white.html ( )