Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes my city's literary treasure Randy Wayne White.

ABOUT RANDY: Randy Wayne White (born 1950) is an American writer of CRIME FICTION and non-fiction adventure tales.He has written best-selling novels and has received awards for his fiction and a television documentary. He is best known for his series of crime novels featuring the retired NSA agent Doc Ford, a marine biologist living on the Gulf Coast of southwest Florida. White has contributed material on a variety of topics to numerous magazines and has lectured across the United States. A resident of Pine Island since 1972,  he is active in South Florida civic affairs and with the restaurant Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar & Grill  on nearby Sanibel Island.

ABOUT SALT RIVER:   Marine biologist and former government agent Doc Ford is sure he's beyond the point of being surprised by his longtime pal Tomlinson's madcap tales of his misspent youth. But he's stunned anew when avowed bachelor Tomlinson reveals that as a younger man strapped for cash, he'd unwittingly fathered multiple children via for-profit sperm bank donations. Thanks to genealogy websites, Tomlinson's now-grown offspring have tracked him down, seeking answers about their roots. . . but Doc quickly grows suspicious that one of them might be planning something far more nefarious than a family reunion.  Doc is unsurprised when his own dicey past is called into question. Months ago, he'd quietly "liberated" a cache of precious Spanish coins from a felonious treasure hunter, and now a number of unsavory individuals are after their cut. Caught between watching his own back and Tomlinson's, Doc has no choice but to get creative--before rash past decisions escalate to deadly present-day dangers.