The stakes are higher than ever as the Wall Street Journal bestselling series continues.Lying low on the sun-kissed coast of Portugal is a far cry from twenty-four-hour lockdown in a CIA black-site prison. But even in paradise, Gibson Vaughn is a long way from being home free. With the feds hot on his heels, he and his crew of fellow fugitives know they can’t hide in a sunny beach town forever. … sunny beach town forever. And before they go on the run again, their generous host—a wealthy drug smuggler—expects to be paid for his hospitality. And paid double.
His price? A nearly impossible operation that Gibson and his gang must pull off to retrieve a king’s ransom in hijacked narcotics. Even if they make it out alive, they’ll have to face the wrath of a ruthless Mexican cartel that plays dirty…and is used to winning. But when Gibson discovers there’s far more than drugs at stake, the heist becomes a daring mission of rescue and mercy—and righteous vengeance.
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The Best Gibson Vaughn Book So Far
This is the fourth book in the series. The last book, Cold Harbor, was a real rollercoaster of a story. I was hoping for another good novel, but this novel over delivered! This novel opens on the waters off southern Portugal with a fishing boat that is not fishing for fish. The next day Gibson Vaughn gets ready for a morning run. He is sharing building owned by an old associate of George Abe who is the local crime boss. George’s employees, Dan Hendricks, ex LA cop, and Jenn Charles, ex CIA, share the building. They are all lying low as they are the subjects of a global FBI search for them along with a paramilitary organization, Cold Harbor. They are all relaxing and enjoying the present and not seriously looking to the future as they will have to leave sometime. All four were collected and brought to the estate of George’s old associate. He has a problem, a major drug shipment has been high jacked, and he wanted their help. Everyone in his organization that he formed from four drug gangs is against it. The novel takes off from here and navigates through many twists, turns, and misdirections all set in an environment of much internal conflict within Gibson’s team, much internal conflict within drug organization, and much conflict between Gibson’s team and the drug organization. At this point my attention was locked into this story. I finished it in three days that has only happened once before.
The aspect of that I really enjoyed how the author turned a team that was in a real deep doldrums and transitioned into their old selves to meet the many obstacles in their way.
The B-story was quite rich and the author wove it into the main storyline quite well. Since this novel started with all of the main characters at a low, some of their pent up feelings were being expressed by the characters. As the team coalesces to the task at hand, more history and feelings are revealed. All of this enriched my reading enjoyment and kept me reading.
There was some vulgar language but all were context appropriate and no graphic sex scenes. There is violence, but they were quick murders. Only one scene of torturer that one was mostly implied. These aspects should not impose barriers to reading this novel.
While the start of this novel did refer back to the events of the last novel, all references were explained so if this is the first novel of the series that you will read, not having read the first three should not lessen your reading enjoyment of this novel. If fact, it might make you want to go back and read them.
Overall, I rate this novel with five stars. I am definitely waiting for the fifth novel in this series due out in November 2019.
I have received a free kindle version of this novel through NetGalley from Thomas & Mercer with a request for an honest, unbiased review. I wish to thank Thomas & Mercer for the opportunity to read this novel early.
Love Gibson and pals wherever they roam!
They had to get out of the USA and this volume is where they landed and what they got into. Never dull, always interesting with a twist. These characters stay true throughout all the books and I love that!
In my opinion Debris Line was a lot better than Cold Harbor. In my opinion the end was a little long winded for my taste. Yet overall this book was really good. Matthew Fitzsimmons gave suspense, action and twist that most will not see coming. I had the betrayer figured out the minute he was introduced to the story. Even with that it was still a page turner. There were times things were a little confusing. In my opinion Matthew Fitzsimmons wrapped things up pretty good, but left some questions to be answered in future books. If you are a Matthew Fitzsimmons fan, in my opinion he does not let you down. If you have read the other Gibson Vaughn Series then I would recommend Debris Line. I read on Kindle Unlimited.
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unexspected turn of events