76. Debris Line by Matthew FitzSimmons

#4 Gibson Vaughn

listened on KindUnlAUDIO

narrated by James Patrick Cronin

Unabridged audio (9:44)
2018
320 pgs.
Adult Mystery
Finished  7/15/21 (returning from Maine, in CT, in the car)
Goodreads rating: 4.22 - 3384 ratings
My rating: 4
Setting:  contemporary coast of Portugal

First line/s: "Joao Luna steered the Alexandria south and west into open waters."

My comments: Adventure and edge-of-your-seat kind of wondering wht will happen next....though a little slow in places.  Set entirely in Portugal.  You get to know Gibson Vaughn's three cohorts a bit better.  I'm getting to like Hendrix more and more, he has a weird sense of humor that's fun.  Jenn, I'm not so sure about.  She's left Sergio, the soccer player, because she knows their relationship won't last.  I really do think that Gibson has a crush on her, but I'm not sure that she reciprocates it even in the slightest.  There's at least one more story written about them at this time, so will definitely see what might happen there.

Goodreads synopsis:   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. 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.

MOVIE - We're the Millers

R (1:40)

Wide release 8/7/2013

I saw it on Sunday, 10/27 (at the Kolb Century cheap theater)

RT Critic:  47   Audience:  74  (That's quite a spread!)

Cag: 4 As silly as it was, I liked it a lot 

Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber

Warner Brothers Pictures

Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter

My comments:  This movie was a freaking riot.  Many had told me that it was very raunchy, and I guess maybe some would consider it so, but compared to some of the things I've seen (and read) in the last few  years......  I laughed and guffawed and rolled my eyes a few times and thoroughly enjoyed it, losing myself completely for each of the 100 minutes that the movie rolled.  Great fun!  And I never realized what a "doll" Jason Sudeikis is!  It also has a really delicious ending.  Perfect movie for me to watch on a lonely Friday afternoon!

RT Summary:  David Burke (Jason Sudeikis) is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids-after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when he tries to help out some local teens and winds up getting jumped by a trio of gutter punks. Stealing his stash and his cash, they leave him in major debt to his supplier, Brad (Ed Helms). In order towipe the slate clean-and maintain a clean bill of health-David must now become a big-time drug smuggler by bringing Brad's latest shipment in from Mexico. Twisting the arms of his neighbors, cynical stripper Rose (Jennifer Aniston) and wannabe customer Kenny (Will Poulter), and the tatted-and-pierced streetwise teen Casey (Emma Roberts), he devises a foolproof plan. One fake wife, two pretend kids and a huge, shiny RV later, the "Millers" are headed south of the border for a Fourth of July weekend that is sure to end with a bang.

35. Getaway - Lisa Brackmann

2012, Soho Press
Adult Mystery
312 pgs.
Rating:  3.5/ Liked it quite a bit

Setting:  Contemporary Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
1st Line/s:  "Michelle dropped the sarong she'd strted to tie around her wist onto her lounge chair.  Nobody cared what her thighs looked like."
OSS: Michelle's getaway to Puerta Vallarta to flee LA and a mess her deceased husband left her. becomes scary when she is robbed, arrested, mugged, and gets confronted by really unscrupulous characters.

She's alone, scared, has no one to talk to or trust, makes a few friends but is uncertain about all of them.  She drinks a lot, makes a few questionable decisions, but it's a good mystery in a great setting.  It's fun when you know the setting, and I could picture it quite well even though my faulty memory had to go back about 15 years to remember the city.