Another great addition to the Gibson Vaughn series. Origami Man is the 5th book in the series and you should read the previous books in order first. I love Gibson, Jenn and Hendricks but it felt weird without George in the mix. Well written with a good plot. Fast pace and action-packed. An entertaining read.

Thank you to NetGalley, Thomas & Mercer and Matthew FitzSimmons for a copy of "Origami Man" in exchange of an honest review.

I was intrigued by the cover and "former marine, brilliant hacker, and wanted fugitive". I was not aware that this was the fifth in the Gibson Vaughn series. I would have liked to know more about the main character, Tinsey, the Origami Man. It is fast paced. I struggled with some, but maybe because it is not my typical genre. Enjoyable if you like sarcasm and dark humor.

4 Stars!
Another great Gibson Vaughn book! I have really enjoyed this series and I hope to see more!

Published in February 2020, the Origami Man is the fifth thriller in Fitzsimmons’ Gibson Vaughn series. It is a fast-paced action novel featuring a private black ops team now fugitives on the Caymans, including a storied hacker, a former police detective, and others, all do-gooders operating outside the law and without a safety net. This novel takes Vaughn on a bitter ride, confronting his darkest nightmare from his childhood and facing a horrible scheme that takes him and his team from Ireland to France to Germany facing off against organized crime and Russian oligarchs. The key to the plot is that neither the readers nor Vaughn and his team knows what’s really going on other than half a million lives are hanging in the balance. This is both a strength and a weakness of the book cause it’s a bit unclear what’s really at stake for a while. Nevertheless, there’s quite a bit of horsepower under the hood and it’s an action packed thriller that’ll hold your attention.

I just reviewed Origami Man by Matthew FitzSimmons. #OrigamiMan #NetGalley - action packed and very detailed. I wish it was part of a series prior to reading, as in some spots there are mentions of things from the past. I look forward to going back and reading the early titles.

Sadly I'm DNF this series because I just can't get into it at all,and I've tried to read it more than once and its not for me, with that said I want to thank the publisher as well as NetGalley for at least letting me try once again

Origami man

By Matthew FitzSimmons

4 stars

The latest in Gibson Vaughn series. As I did, the book can be read as a standalone, although FitxSimmons has written four other books in the series.

In this book Gibson Vaughn, a former marine, brilliant hacker, and wanted fugitive Gibson Vaughn is off the grid in the Caymans. Until the ice-cold assassin Tinsley draws him out of the shadows. Working together in a fight against global terror, they race across Europe to find an elusive cyber-psycho behind the mother of all malware.

The book is an interesting read. It engages the reader in parts, but technical writer loses the uninitiated in places. It is a creative work of fiction that is an interesting read.

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I was losing faith in this series with books 2-4; I just really could not get into those very much. But this one was getting back to the fun and thrill I found in the first book! I highly recommend this series (especially books 1 and 5, obviously).

Thank you to Thomas & Mercer for a free digital galley via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I am a huge fan of this series. Sarcasm. Dark humor. Suspense. Camaraderie. Tense relationships. Saving the world. Great addition to the series!

This is the fourth book in the Gibson Vaughn series, and I read the first and second but missed the third. One thing I really enjoyed about this book is that it didn't really matter that I had missed a book, or that there had been a large time gap between readings. FitzSimmons provides enough details throughout that the reader understands what's going on without having to know the full backstory about any of the characters.

I also love the action in this book. From the first page, Fitzsimmons pulls the reader in with action and violence. There are car chases, foot chases, and gunshots everywhere, which I really enjoyed. This kept me on the edge of my seat and I wanted to keep reading to see which characters became casualties. There is a comfort that comes from knowing the three main characters will survive, but there is also the element of suspense of wondering who might be sacrificed for the sake of the story.

Tinsley/the Origami Man is an interesting character to me, and I would actually be really interested to read more about him. He strikes me as a John Wick-type character, an assassin who can't really be defeated. I love that aspect of the character and really enjoyed reading about him in this story.

Overall, there's nothing I didn't like about this book. I definitely recommend!

This series has been intriguing from the beginning: unique in many ways but familiar in the way that makes reading easy.

Fifth release in the series, Origami Man, is the strongest, most enjoyable yet! The characters I've come to expect and to wish the best for are all present: Continuing to develop, following growth lines of their own, and ineluctably contributing to a strong and catchy plot. But spicing up this episode is a new character, a complete villain who nonetheless appeals because of his rigid and logical code of behavior, which in this book means ramping up the action and support for the team!

I had the pleasure of reading Book 4, Debris Line, right before this new one, and I recommend that close, sequential reading of the series if possible: The plots increasingly fold into the next title, and knowing what came before enhances the newest reading.

That said, this could be a very satisfying stand-alone. Bottom line: If you get a chance to read it alone, or not at all? You'll want to grab it!

Published in February 2020, so it's immediately available!
Thanks to Thomas & Mercer and NetGalley for the chance to read a pre-pub issue.

This is the fifth Gibson Vaughn novel; I would recommend reading the first four for the background, although the details of events in the past were included. Gibson and his crew are hiding out in the Caymans doing odd jobs to survive. One of them is approached by a bad guy for assistance in accessing an encrypted flash drive. The bad guy is Fred Tinsley, a hired assassin who can kill without blinking an eye. He was hired to steal the drive, but was double-crossed when the time came to hand it over. He is also the man who murdered Vaughn’s father and who hanged, resurrected and hanged again Vaughn, events that took place in the first book in this series. Something Vaughn will never forget. Tinsley hires Vaughn’s crew to track down what the program on the drive will do. This takes them all over Europe to try to save 500,000 American lives. The action in the book is intense, with car chases, numerous killings and beating up of people along the way. A very solid entry in this series, I would highly recommend. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the read.

The main characters in this book although sometimes against each other start to work together in order to defeat the real evil. A man who does not know love and that rules his life by greed, lack of morals, power and money. It also hints as things should have worked while there still officially was a cold war between USA and Russia. The story also uses technology as a weapon - and it seems quite probable that computer skills could be used in the way described in this book - and I can only hope that industries have the adequate controls and firewalls to avoid (or at least minimize these types of risks). I´ll certainly be looking forward to reading the next book in this series.
I received a copy of this book for free in exchange for an honest opinion.

Good but not his best work. Characters developed well,and everything tied together in a neat bow.I will look forward to the authors next book.

Heart pounding. Exciting. A well told story with enough twists and turns to have your head spinning and keep you glued to your chair. Absolutely loved it. Happy reading!

I was struggling in the first 10% of “Origami Man.”

The use of phrases instead of sentences is a good technique when used sparingly for effect. Even though it stretched over the first couple of chapters, I would have accepted the choice if mostly confined to Tinsley, the evil assassin of the story. Unfortunately, this “style” permeates the entire book, thus making its use ineffectively and an increasing irritant.

I also get that this is the fifth book in a series (my first intro to these characters). I was hardly into the book before deciding I would never go back and read the other four books, mostly because the recaps and flashbacks were detailed and I felt no need.

Thankfully, around the 25% read mark, the story was off and running and I was hooked. Blurring the lines and forcing good and evil characters to work together (because the enemy of my enemy can be a friend) was a nice touch, and added to the tension in the book. Additionally, the unexpected event was always present, and not knowing exactly where the book was going made for good reading. As with any action-type story, the heroes are going to find themselves in trouble multiple times throughout the book. How the author extricates them from danger affects the book. In most instances, author Matthew Fitzsimmons offers plausible solutions and I can almost forgive him for using the same solution twice.

The characters aren’t given a lot of fleshing out and the scene descriptions could be better but this book is action-oriented. It reminded me of the pulp novels featuring Doc Savage and his men. All were experts, and sandwiched between the action scenes was somewhat witty dialogue intended to give the characters more depth. All the characters were experts in their fields. Action prevailed over everything. If you are seeking to get your adrenaline pumping, “Origami Man” will suffice.

For those who like to know, the book can be read as a standalone. With all the explanation in the beginning of the book I felt a bit like someone who showed up to a sporting event at half-time, but major plotlines do not cross from the other books to this one, just the characters. While there are openings for another book, this one has a beginning, middle, and end. Coarse language appears throughout, most of it unnecessary to the story and characters, but I never felt it took over the book.

Bottom line – A decent offering, and once the story found its legs I felt entertained and caught up in the action. Fans of the author will probably love this book. Three stars.

My thanks to NetGalley and Thomas and Mercer for an advance complimentary ebook of this title.

This is a fast paced thriller where the threat is malware that can lead to the deaths of so so many people. Gibson Vaughn is living quietly until he's not- until Tinsley, the man who killed his father, turns up and wants his help decrypting a thumb drive. This never gets too in the weeds about the technology, occasionally goes over the top with the action etc, but always keeps you reading. I'd only read one of the books in the series so this was more or less a standalone for me and it was fine as FitzSimmons gives just the right amount of backstory. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.

The fifth book in the Gibson Vaughn series, Origami Man by Matthew Fitzsimmons picks up over a year after the fourth book ended. Having read all books in the series so far, Origami Man would have to rate as my second favourite behind The Short Drop. This book focuses more on the team as a whole (minus George) and I enjoyed the addition of the side characters, especially villain Fred Tinsley and the chapters from his perspective. I’m very keen to read the next book when it comes out!

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an ARC.

Book Review: Origami Man (Gibson Vaughn #5) by Matthew FitzSimmons
(Published by Thomas & Mercer)

4.5 Stars

"...This is the short drop," the man said. "You'll notice that, unlike the standard drop or the long drop, your neck is not broken. Which may seem like a blessing now, but in the end you will wish it had been a longer drop and a shorter wait..." - from "The Short Drop" (Gibson Vaughn #1), by Matthew FitzSimmons

He was the scourge of Gibson Vaughn's existence. The bogeyman who'd killed his dad in the basement of his Charlottesville home, and who later on lured him to that same basement, where he inflicted upon Vaughn his worst nightmare - the "short drop" - tortured, hanged and revived, again and again. Only an inadvertent but timely intrusion by Jenn Charles saved his life.

But then, at that same instance, in a flash the ghost disappeared.

Pliable like an origami, an assassin who can squeeze himself into the smallest orifice and stay buried behind a drywall, in a grave, for the kill, the Origami Man reappears.

In a cruel twist of fate, Vaughn now has to swallow the bitter pill of foregoing vengeance and ironically has to trust and cooperate alongside his personal daemon, with 50,000 lives hanging in the balance.

But that detestable foe, perhaps the devil himself, may prove to be that one formidable ally sine qua non a desperate gambit fails.

In Book 4, lying low in an idyllic respite on a debris-lined, sun-drenched beach in coastal Portugal which turns out to be anything but a holiday in the sand, IT hacker /ex-marine Vaughn along with his brothers-in-arms - and in flight from the law - Charles, Henricks and Abe, had to rely on the ultimate hack to get the better of drug smuggling Portuguese mafia types, Romanian gangsters and the Mexican cartel.

They're fugitives, wanted by the feds. They've hijacked an aircraft belonging to a rogue private military contractor.

In this installment, the author takes us to a world of hackers and on a wild chase spanning continents. Through the picturesque coral reefs of the Caymans, through sect-divided Belfast, a refuge in Portugal and the autobahn in Germany against the Russian Bratva, and perhaps, even US intelligence agencies. All to thwart an attack on American Pharmaceuticals and altered meds potentially causing an endemic. Will Vaughn's legendary coding skills be up to the task?

I've followed this well-written, technically proficient series through inception, and the author never fails to come up with fresh twists and turns. Non-stop action, compelling characters, and now one enigmatic villain.

Review based on an Advance Reading Copy from Thomas & Mercer through NetGalley.

Lord, I love the way Matthew Fitzsimmons can weave a story. He walks a tight line between thriller, tech, humanity, quasi legal enterprises, murder, mayhem, car chases, and truly psychotic personalities.

This installment focuses less on Gibson Vaughn than the team. The attributes and dialog given to each member gave them an added dimension in this go-round. Their interactions were perfect and drew responses from shaking my head to chuckling to wondering “what the ...?”

Fitzsimmons has given the reader an action filled plot which never stops moving and morphing. There are truly despicable nemeses as well as very human characters who get sucked into the vortex and struggle to climb out and enter the fight for survival. A fifteen year old Irish hacker with the most extraordinary one liners could be my new favorite sub character.

Now about the ending - I felt as if I was sitting in a theater and the playwright decided to have the lights go out as an ending and I am left sitting in the darkest dark. Mr. Fitzsimmons when are you going to turn the lights back on? Next installment when?

Love this series, love the writing, love that amidst all the insanity there is a call to humanity. Thank you NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for a copy.