![]() ![]() “I didn’t set out to write a mystery or a thriller,” he says. With two young sons to feed, White spent three years penning his first book while writing freelance columns for national magazines. In 1987, Tarpon Bay Marina was closed to power boat traffic as part of a federal manatee protection ordinance. White wrote his first novel out of necessity. “But I always wanted to write, so in my spare time, in what spare time I had, I wrote.” ![]() “I never did, so I really had to work at it and I just worked and worked and worked at it, and ultimately became competent. “Some people have very good fishing instincts,” White says. Summers were spent fishing off the Carolina coast. Born in Ohio and raised in Iowa, White and his family moved to Lee County in 1972. He lives across from Sanibel in his house on Pine Island, built atop Indian mounds that date back 7,000 years. The Southwest Florida that White writes of is home. ![]() “So Ford has to make the decision whether to act on his instincts or with what little emotion he has. “He is confronted with the option of killing someone who he really wants to kill, but there is a reason why this person has behaved as he did,” White explains. In White’s latest release, “Tampa Burn,” the pragmatic Ford faces the most difficult test to his rational side yet Ñ the kidnapping of his 14-year-old son. Recurring characters evolve in each work. ![]() MacDonald’s influence comes through in White’s pacing, which White combines with the naturalist eye of a Carl Hiaasen to produce prose compelling enough to touch readers on different levels. ![]()
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