Tomlinson's Wake is the 28th Doc Ford adventure thriller by Randy Wayne White. Released 26th Aug 2025 by Harlequin on their Hanover Square Press imprint, it's 336 pages and is available in hardcover, paperback, audio, and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout. For Kindle Unlimited subscribers, this book is currently included in the KU subscription library to borrow and read for free. The other books in the series are currently not available on KU, though they are available in ebook format.
This is a very very well written thriller with an impressively palpable sense of dread throughout which the author ratchets up to a white-knuckle crescendo. Doc is again trying to protect his (admittedly odd) friends including a drugged out hippie seeking higher consciousness and a ragtag bunch of indigenous children led by a charismatic boy who might be the last heir of the vanished Mayan empire.
Apart from saving his corner of the world from thugs and assassins, he's got loads of personal troubles in his personal life trying to reconcile his dichotomous careers as a fixer / spy and also a mild-mannered ecology minded professor of biology.
It's very well researched and the author does a fantastic job of scenery and settings, with hair-raising descriptions of the jungle wilderness and explosive violence of humans. There are distinct scenes of graphic violence and rough language. The way they explode on the page reminds me a lot of Lansdale's Hap & Leonard books (with less glib humor and more cerebral intelligence and ecology/biology content).
Four and a half stars. This would be a
good choice for fans of mystery thrillers, for public library
acquisition, or for a binge/buddy read. Very high quality fiction.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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