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title: "The Short Drop (Gibson Vaughn) Hardcover – December 1, 2015"
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# The Short Drop (Gibson Vaughn) Hardcover – December 1, 2015

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## Customer Reviews

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    Had it not been for the many positive reviews driving me on to find out what was so great about this book
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2016*

Based upon the 3000+ reviews in just a month, and the rather high rating, I was definitely looking forward to The Short Drop, so you can imagine my surprise when I found that almost the complete first half of the novel, billed as a political thriller, was nothing but an excruciatingly slow set up for the second half of the book. Truly, other than finding out a few bits and pieces on the backgrounds of several of the lead characters (it's really more of a team effort than a single protagonist), the only thing that really "happens" in the entire first half of the novel is the recounting of the kidnapping of the current VP's daughter (who is now running for President), from 10 years earlier.  Had it not been for the many positive reviews driving me on to find out what was so great about this book, I would definitely have stopped reading well before I got to the halfway point.  While the writing was fairly crisp, the one thing that became particularly irksome was the repetitiveness of the author's sentence structure, which was basically, "The man did such and such."  Again and again and again, and in a row.  Not the sign of of professional writer in my humble opinion, who would or should know better, to vary the sentence structure to keep it from becoming so monotonous. That said, I did enjoy the second half of the book which did keep moving from beginning to end, holding my interest without my having to push myself to read it like I did for the first half of the book.  This, however,  then brings me to a rather troubling criticism, and one which should not be taken lightly.  Perhaps it's, as they say, just a case of great minds thinking alike, but about a year and a half ago, I read a novel entitled, "The Moroni Deception," the quite memorable plot of which, has managed to stay with me this whole time (unlike a lot of formulaic thriller novels where you can barely recount the plot details a week later from the twelve previous that you read).  So, when the central plot line in The Short Drop turned out to be the fact that a current Presidential candidate's 13 year old daughter had been kidnapped, I merely wrote that off as a coincidence.  Then soon after, when a sociopathic assassin, on orders from who would appear to be the mysterious central villain, begins stalking the unsuspecting protagonist with orders to kill him if he should find what he is searching for, I was like, well that's certainly more that quite a bit coincidental also.  But the near identical reveals in the finale, which I won't give away as a spoiler, I was now almost convinced went way beyond coincidence, and in retrospect, now seems like the majority of the very few plot lines in The Short Drop, are just  several of the twists and subplots straight out of The Moroni Deception.  While these plot lines provided the central and ultimately intriguing story in The Short Drop (the second half anyway), I don't think that is a good thing if they were in fact "borrowed."

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    Predictable and horrible character closure
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2016*

The Short Drop by Matthew Fitzsimmons is one of  those books that got pretty popular with thousands of reviews on Amazon yet I have no idea how. It's really one of those things that is so mysterious to me but when I saw it on sale for $1.99, I quickly swiped it up. Everyone needs to read a good mystery story from time to time. I don't think I've ever used the word "meh" in any of my reviews. It's unprofessional and well, not really a word at all. But I just can't help but label this book as anything but "meh". I'm sorry author, but I had to do it. The "reveal" was hardly anything worth plowing through this 400 page book for. Characters teetered on the borderline of me not really caring for. Not to mention, a closure with characters that literally, and I mean literally had me blurting out the words "Are you serious?". All this combined to make me drop that three letter bomb on this book.The author does give us characters that are at least believable in that they aren't dodging bullets every other chapter like the second coming of the matrix. However, these very same characters are very cookie cutter like and stereotypical. Like hmm, where have we met these guys before? Oh that's right, every other book out there. I can almost guarantee that by the time you finish with the book, you'll hardly remember any of them the day after.The pacing of the story was a bit slow going but I didn't have any trouble following the plot or what was going on. The actual writing was average in that he did just enough to not make me fall asleep or stop reading altogether. Some of the cliff hangers at the end of the chapters made sure I read just a little more than I should. The biggest disappointment with this book was the actual mystery itself. Once that tiny bit of hint was dropped, I kept thinking please don't do what I think you're going to do. Please don't. Ah crap. You did.The other disappointment came from how things actually ended or unfolded with a couple of the character at the end. It was just mind boggling to me of how the author chose to end it. It was hilarious but in a very bad way. I definitely have to drop the hammer in my spoiler section below.As you can gathered, my review is pretty negative. There's not much to like and many of the ideas used could have been more original. It just felt like something was holding the author back. If he could have been more daring, I think the story might have interested me a lot more.************SPOILERS BELOW************Billy - A littleclosure would have been nice since he loved Suzanne so much. He most likely would have found out about what happened to Lombard in the end but again, a little closure for the story would have been nice.George - You did him dirty. We follow him for the better part of the book and we have no idea what happens to him in the end. I can only assume that Jenn was able to find and save him.Tinsley - Let's be friends? Are you serious? Let's be friends? After all that talk about the meaning of time for Tinsley throughout the book, I expected something a lot more clever in the end than "Let's be friends". Come on man.Lombard - Biggest joke of a closure I have read in a while. After all that, we as the readers don't even get to witness the final exchange between Lombard and his wife when she confronted him. You serious author? Why even devout sections to Lombard if all you're going to do is this in the end and block it out for the readers? It was a waste of time. I would have expected for the big, bad and witty politician to put up a fight and at least deny things. In fact, there wasn't even condemning evidence as Tinsley had the report! All the wife had was some writing in Suzanne's book which could have been misconstrued for something else if he played it smart!

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    Author's First Book-No amateur writer here!
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2017*

Don't know who to give the most credit too on this well written book, the author or his editor. Both I am sure.  Love the depth of his first book and the many angles it took without loosing the reader or seeming irrelevant or poorly placed in the flow of the story.  Glad the editor did not try to influence the author to put a romance twist to this one either. To get a book to sell the sexual innuendos frustrate me giving the impression that it's a lazy way to hold a readers interest. Not this book, it appears that the author very much knows his talent and his editor allowed that talent to shine through. Very refreshing to have an important female character and not take the sexual magnetism direction that was not needed and very refreshing with a speck of tension it left you lingering with.  I didn't check for facts but you were made to feel there was well researched material in the IT category. The problem with a good book is you finish way too soon and your next read makes yearn for more because you are missing your new foundbuddies and simulated bravery it's instilled in you.

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