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The remarkable new novel in the Doc Ford series by New York Times–bestselling author Randy Wayne White. Doc Ford’s old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical...

The second novel of the Hurricane Road series, Florida Straits, rejoins the Bryans, Asher and Corazon, now with four grown children. They live and travel between old Cuba and young a Miami, Florida. As ship owners, they're personally involved as the United States enters the First World War. With the wars end comes the Volstead Act, prohibition. Booze is forbidden and so begins the Roaring Twenties. FLORIDA STRAITS is a graphic story of the smuggling of booze, drugs and immigrants. It’s concerns anger, deep love, greed and vengeance; men, good and bad, crossing dark water on fast boats. ...

The war in the Middle East is entering a dangerous new phase, with a global oil chokepoint at the centre of rising tensions, but just how far will NATO allies go to support Trump’s push to reopen the Strait of Hormuz? Plus, a delayed China meeting raises fresh diplomatic concerns, and why not everyone is feeling the economic squeeze.