Tomlinson might or might not be modeled after real people but, to their many kindred readers, the two men are as real as Florida’s Gulf Coast and the islands that provide the settings for Randy’s novels.  If you have read all seventeen novels (soon to be eighteen) you’ll recognize a few faces here, a few names and more than a few quirky characters.  But if you are new to Doc Ford country, we hope you, too, find a home among the sun-baked, laid-back people who inhabit Florida’s Mangrove Coast of fiction and fact.