Wyatt
(Sprache: Englisch)
Garry Disher's cool, enigmatic anti-hero Wyatt has a job--a jewel heist. The kind Wyatt likes. Nothing extravagant, nothing greedy. Stake out the international courier, one Alain Le Page, hold up the goods in transit and get away fast.
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Garry Disher's cool, enigmatic anti-hero Wyatt has a job--a jewel heist. The kind Wyatt likes. Nothing extravagant, nothing greedy. Stake out the international courier, one Alain Le Page, hold up the goods in transit and get away fast.Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this is Eddie Oberin's job. Eddie's very smart ex-wife Lydia has the inside information. Add Wyatt's planning genius and meticulous preparation, and what could possibly go wrong?
Plenty. And when you wrong Wyatt, you don't get to just walk away.
Taut plots, brilliant writing and relentless pace; plus an unforgettable cast, including the ever-elusive Wyatt himself: these are the hallmarks of Garry Disher's Wyatt series.
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1Wyatt was waiting to rob a man of $75,000.
It was a Friday afternoon in spring, and he was parked near
a split-level house in Mount Eliza, forty-five minutes around the
bay from the city. The house belonged to a harbourmaster for the
Port of Melbourne and offered water views but was an architectural
nightmare not that Wyatt cared, he d always known that wealth
and crassness went together. He was only interested in the
money.
So far, he was down $500, the brokerage fee he d paid Eddie
Oberin for the harbourmaster tip. The way Eddie explained it,
the waterside unions were powerful, but so was this harbourmaster.
It was in everyone s best interests for ships to moor, unload, load
and depart as swiftly as possible, but some delays were
unavoidable a Filipino sailor breaking his neck in a fall, for
example; a customs raid, or a strike. And some delays were of the
harbourmaster s own making: three or four times a year he would
quarantine a ship.
The guy s salary was pretty good, but he had expenses
gambling debts, child support and the cost of running two
dwellings. An apartment near the docks, where he lived five days
a week, and this split-level monstrosity in Mount Eliza. He d paid
a lot for his view of the bay, the repayments were killing him, and
so from time to time he quarantined ships. Another term for it
was extortion: give me seventy-five grand, Mr Ship Owner, and
I ll give your ship a clean bill of health.
Time passed, Wyatt waited, and he thought about Eddie
Oberin. Eddie had been a useful gunman and wheelman a
couple of credit union robberies, a payroll hit but now he was
mostly a fence and the kind of man who hears whispers and then
sells or trades the things he hears. Five hundred bucks for a whisper
in the right ear, thought Wyatt.
Just then a Lexus nosed out of the harbourmaster s steep
driveway, a smooth, silvery car quite unlike the man himself, who
was pale, sweaty and beer-fed, with small features
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crammed
together at the centre of a large, balding head. Wyatt knew all that
from having shadowed him for several days, and everything said
the harbourmaster would be no threat. Unless he d brought a hard
man with him this afternoon, riding shotgun.
He hadn t. Wyatt turned the key in the ignition of a battered
Holden utility with Pete the Painter logoed on both doors and
tailed the Lexus out of the street. Eddie Oberin had rented him
the vehicle. There really was a painter named Pete, currently
serving two years for burglary and unable to enjoy what Wyatt
was enjoying: the bay waters smooth and shiny as ice, the distant
towers of Melbourne like a dreamscape in the haze, the sun
beating from the windshields of the vehicles toiling around the
dips and folds of Mount Eliza, the opportunity to steal $75,000.
Soon the harbourmaster was heading down Oliver s Hill to
where Frankston lay flat and disappointed beside the bay. Frankston
was testament to the notion that you couldn t have too much
commerce, but it was cheap, noisy, exhausted commerce, for this
was an area of high unemployment and social distress. Wastedlooking
junkies lurked around the station, overweight shoppers
crowded the footpaths and sixteen-year-old mothers slopped along,
snatching mouthfuls of cigarette smoke and urging their kids to
drink Coke laced with downers to keep them docile. The fast-food
joints did a roaring trade and little girls paid too much for plastic
jewellery in the specialty shops.
And so Wyatt was surprised when the harbourmaster turned
off the Nepean Highway into the shopping precinct. Perhaps he
wanted a haircut or had run out of bread and milk, and wasn t
here to collect an envelope containing
together at the centre of a large, balding head. Wyatt knew all that
from having shadowed him for several days, and everything said
the harbourmaster would be no threat. Unless he d brought a hard
man with him this afternoon, riding shotgun.
He hadn t. Wyatt turned the key in the ignition of a battered
Holden utility with Pete the Painter logoed on both doors and
tailed the Lexus out of the street. Eddie Oberin had rented him
the vehicle. There really was a painter named Pete, currently
serving two years for burglary and unable to enjoy what Wyatt
was enjoying: the bay waters smooth and shiny as ice, the distant
towers of Melbourne like a dreamscape in the haze, the sun
beating from the windshields of the vehicles toiling around the
dips and folds of Mount Eliza, the opportunity to steal $75,000.
Soon the harbourmaster was heading down Oliver s Hill to
where Frankston lay flat and disappointed beside the bay. Frankston
was testament to the notion that you couldn t have too much
commerce, but it was cheap, noisy, exhausted commerce, for this
was an area of high unemployment and social distress. Wastedlooking
junkies lurked around the station, overweight shoppers
crowded the footpaths and sixteen-year-old mothers slopped along,
snatching mouthfuls of cigarette smoke and urging their kids to
drink Coke laced with downers to keep them docile. The fast-food
joints did a roaring trade and little girls paid too much for plastic
jewellery in the specialty shops.
And so Wyatt was surprised when the harbourmaster turned
off the Nepean Highway into the shopping precinct. Perhaps he
wanted a haircut or had run out of bread and milk, and wasn t
here to collect an envelope containing
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Autoren-Porträt von Garry Disher
Garry Disher is one of Australia's best-known novelists. He's published over 40 books in a range of genres, including crime, children's books, and Australian history. His Hal Challis crime series is also published in the US by Soho Crime. He lives on the Mornington Peninsula, southeast of Melbourne.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Garry Disher
- 2012, 336 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Soho Crime
- ISBN-10: 1616951613
- ISBN-13: 9781616951610
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.07.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for WyattOne of Booklist's "101 Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade"
Like an Australian Bob le Flambeur, Disher s titular robber is smooth, calm and planning a big heist.
Entertainment Weekly
The first U.S. appearance of this series, and it's just brilliant.
Seattle Times
"Once again Disher takes us back to the golden age of thrillers, a time when they were fast, taut and dependably suspenseful."
Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
A jewel heist that appears straightforward proves anything but in Australian author Disher's outstanding seventh thriller featuring Melbourne bank robber Wyatt Wareen, last seen in 1997's The Fallout.... The spare, economical prose perfectly suits this tale of mad love and crimes gone wrong ... and should boost the reputation of Disher, winner of Australia's Ned Kelly Award, in the U.S.
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Wyatt Wareen has been away for awhile, but he s back in Melbourne and looking for a score.... Disher also writes the excellent Inspector Hal Challis procedurals (Chain of Evidence, 2007), but a new Wyatt novel we ve described the series as criminal procedurals (Kick Back, 1993) is cause for celebration. Though the ensemble cast is sharply drawn, the heart of the story is Wyatt, a cool-headed, taciturn, unsentimental thief with a code ... Wyatt may be a man out of time, but crime fiction like this is timeless.
Booklist, Starred Review
Disher s depiction of Melbourne s underworld is a revelation undeniably lurid and harsh yet humming with a vibrancy that lends a soulful note to the story. In his first Wyatt thriller in 13 years, Disher, author of the Hal Challis police procedurals (The Dragon Man; Blood Moon) excels at capturing the complexity and tension of life on the run, and his characters exude a visceral energy as they compete to survive. Highly recommended for readers who enjoy atmospheric, character-driven crime
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thrillers.
Library Journal, Starred Review
I ve read my way across the landscape of caper novels. Somehow, though, I missed Australia, particularly Garry Disher s series with thief Wyatt. Thankfully, that has now been remedied. Although Wyatt is Disher s seventh featuring his inscrutable hero, it was a terrific place to start.
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
The plot is solid, pacing excellent, and the characterization first-rate. Fans of Barry Eisler and Ted Bell should also appreciate Disher.
ForeWord Reviews
If you want an armchair trip to Australia, try this cool caper.... Readers familiar with Garry Disher's procedural series featuring Hal Challis will recognize the author's straightforward style and his ability to create an ensemble cast of three-dimensional characters with a few deft strokes.
Mystery Scene
If you ve read Ripley you ll understand...
Jeff Park, Front Row (BBC)
Praise for the Hal Challis series
"This series boasts careful, realistic casework, but there s enough darkness and ambiguity to suit John Harvey fans and a kind of which-way-is-up sense of the police force that recalls early James Ellroy. Moody, inventive, and extremely hard to put down."
Booklist
Library Journal, Starred Review
I ve read my way across the landscape of caper novels. Somehow, though, I missed Australia, particularly Garry Disher s series with thief Wyatt. Thankfully, that has now been remedied. Although Wyatt is Disher s seventh featuring his inscrutable hero, it was a terrific place to start.
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
The plot is solid, pacing excellent, and the characterization first-rate. Fans of Barry Eisler and Ted Bell should also appreciate Disher.
ForeWord Reviews
If you want an armchair trip to Australia, try this cool caper.... Readers familiar with Garry Disher's procedural series featuring Hal Challis will recognize the author's straightforward style and his ability to create an ensemble cast of three-dimensional characters with a few deft strokes.
Mystery Scene
If you ve read Ripley you ll understand...
Jeff Park, Front Row (BBC)
Praise for the Hal Challis series
"This series boasts careful, realistic casework, but there s enough darkness and ambiguity to suit John Harvey fans and a kind of which-way-is-up sense of the police force that recalls early James Ellroy. Moody, inventive, and extremely hard to put down."
Booklist
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