Fallout
(Sprache: Englisch)
Australian jewel thief Wyatt has a bounty of stolen jewels and a yacht, but nothing can stop him from returning to his life of crime. He drugs his lover, police officer Liz Redding, and escapes into the night only to discover the gems he lifted are fakes....
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Australian jewel thief Wyatt has a bounty of stolen jewels and a yacht, but nothing can stop him from returning to his life of crime. He drugs his lover, police officer Liz Redding, and escapes into the night only to discover the gems he lifted are fakes. With his luck and his resources rapidly running out, Wyatt begrudgingly joins forces with Raymond, his estranged nephew and an established criminal himself, to lift some expensive artwork. It should be an easy job the gallery is under construction and Wyatt has performed similar heists before. But it isn t long before things go south, leaving Wyatt with some tough choices. Will the young and eager Raymond prove to be a worthy pupil or is he nothing but deadweight? For Wyatt, putting faith in other people has never been as tempting... or as dangerous.
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By the fifth hold-up the papers are calling him the bush bandit. An inspector of police, flat, inexpressive, resistant to the pull of the cameras, is less colourful: We are looking for a male person who is armed and should be considered dangerous. His method of operation is essentially the same in every case. He targets a bank in a country town within an area covering west and south-western Victoria and east and south-eastern South Australia. He selects a quiet period when there are few if any customers, then menaces bank staff with a sawn-off shotgun, demanding cash from the tills. To date, we have no reports of an accomplice. I repeat, this person is armed. On no account should he be approached. There are things that the inspector doesn t say. He doesn t say that the police are at a loss to pinpoint an operating base for the man. Given the area he moves in, the bush bandit might be holed up in Mount Gambier, Bordertown, Horsham, even somewhere up on the River Murray. Or he might be operating from Adelaide, even Melbourne.
The inspector doesn t say how effective the bandit is. First, the shotgun, its blunt snout, those twin black staring mouths. Everyone knows about shotguns, knows the massive damage they inflict at close range, the spread of the pellets, scattering and cutting like hornets. The dull gleam of the metal, the worn stock, the smell of gun oil. A shotgun spells gaping death, and so you are quiescent before it. You spread yourself out on the floor, you empty the till, you forget about being a hero.
Then there is the bandit himself. Witness descriptions tally for each of the five hold-ups. The man is tall and slender and he moves well. Athletic, one bank teller said. No wasted motions, said another. Other than that there is no clear description of the bush bandit. He varies his dress
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from job to job a suit, jeans and a check shirt, zip-up windproof jacket and trousers, overalls, tracksuit. And something always to divert attention away from his face glasses, sunglasses, cap, wide-brimmed Akubra, a bandaid strip.
He also speaks in fragments, so that bank staff are never able to get a clear fix on his voice: Face down fill the bag, please, no coins foot off the alarm don t move don t follow. It s a quiet voice, that s all they can say. Calm, patient, understanding these are some of the words the witnesses use. And young. They agree that he can t be more than about twenty-five.
Although they don t say it, the police believe that he s probably not a junkie. First-timers and junkies, they barge in screaming, pistol-whipping staff and customers, generally encouraging a condition of panic and instability that can tip over into hostages and spilt blood.
It s agreed that the man rides a big Ducati. No, a Kawasaki. Maybe a Honda. Big, anyway. Plenty of guts and very fast. Hard to track. On a bike like that he can be miles away before the alarm is raised. You can put up a chopper, send out a pursuit car, but all the bush bandit has to do is simply wheel off the road and under
a gum tree or behind a windmill until the danger blows over.
Where does he store the bike? The police have no answer. Could be anywhere. Maybe their man has a dozen bikes stashed away, all around the country.
One thing we do know, the inspector says, one day he ll slip up. And we ll be there when it happens. <
He also speaks in fragments, so that bank staff are never able to get a clear fix on his voice: Face down fill the bag, please, no coins foot off the alarm don t move don t follow. It s a quiet voice, that s all they can say. Calm, patient, understanding these are some of the words the witnesses use. And young. They agree that he can t be more than about twenty-five.
Although they don t say it, the police believe that he s probably not a junkie. First-timers and junkies, they barge in screaming, pistol-whipping staff and customers, generally encouraging a condition of panic and instability that can tip over into hostages and spilt blood.
It s agreed that the man rides a big Ducati. No, a Kawasaki. Maybe a Honda. Big, anyway. Plenty of guts and very fast. Hard to track. On a bike like that he can be miles away before the alarm is raised. You can put up a chopper, send out a pursuit car, but all the bush bandit has to do is simply wheel off the road and under
a gum tree or behind a windmill until the danger blows over.
Where does he store the bike? The police have no answer. Could be anywhere. Maybe their man has a dozen bikes stashed away, all around the country.
One thing we do know, the inspector says, one day he ll slip up. And we ll be there when it happens. <
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Autoren-Porträt von Garry Disher
Garry Disher is one of Australia's best-known novelists. He's published over forty 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
- 2014, 288 Seiten, Masse: 15,2 x 19,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Soho Crime
- ISBN-10: 1616953756
- ISBN-13: 9781616953751
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.07.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for Fallout"Disher continues to show an impressive knack for planning capers that go like clockwork."
Kirkus Reviews
Praise for the Wyatt series
"Like an Australian Bob le Flambeur, Disher's titular robber is smooth, calm and planning a big heist."
Entertainment Weekly
There's real technique on show here.... it's so fast and hard-written that it becomes a blur, a flurry of activity that dazzles the senses.... Wyatt is a thrill-laden pleasure. I can't wait to read the others.
ABC Radio
Outstanding.... The spare, economical prose perfectly suits this tale of mad love and crimes gone wrong, which will remind many of Westlake's better Parker novels. Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Endlessly cool, enormously competent.... a banquet for those who like it uncut and unsparing.
Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Brilliant.... The similarities with another fictional thief Richard Stark's antihero Parker are many.
Seattle Times
Disher takes us back to the golden age of thrillers, a time when they were fast, taut and dependably suspenseful.
Kirkus Reviews
A satisfying read, with a suspenseful denouement... recommended.
Spinetingler Magazine
Praise for the Garry Disher
"Colorful . . . . Disher has literary talent and imagination." Chicago Tribune
"A first-rate Australian author." The New York Times Book Review
"Disher creates the kind of complex, edgy, principled yet flawed characters it's a pleasure to worry about." Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
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