Wyatt needs a job.
A bank job would be nice, or a security van hold-up. As long as he doesn't have to work with cocky idiots and strung-out meth-heads like the Pepper brothers. That's the sort of miscalculation that buys you the wrong kind of time.
So he contacts a man who in the past put him on the right kind of heist. And finds himself in Noosa, stealing a painting for Hannah Sten.
He knows how it's done: case the premises, set up escape routes and failsafes, get in and get out with the goods unrecognised. Make a good plan; back it up with another. And be very, very careful.
But who is his client? Who else wants that painting?
Sometimes, being very careful is not enough.
‘For the connoisseur of crime the Wyatt series represents Disher at his stylish best…wicked and wonderful. Welcome back, Wyatt.' – Sydney Morning Herald
From one of Australia's most loved and celebrated crime writers, the multiple award-winning Garry Disher.
Twenty years ago Charlie Deravin's mother went missing near the family beach shack—believed murdered; body never found. His father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since.
Now Charlie's back living in the shack in Menlo Beach, on disciplinary leave from his job with the police sex-crimes unit, and permanent leave from his marriage. After two decades worrying away at the mystery of his mother's disappearance, he's run out of leads.
Then the skeletal remains of two people are found in the excavation of a new building site—and the past comes crashing in on Charlie.
The Way It Is Now is the enthralling new novel from Garry Disher, one of Australia's most loved and celebrated crime writers.
‘Disher is one of this country's finest writers.' TONY BIRCH
‘Disher is the gold standard for rural noir.' CHRIS HAMMER
‘A giant not only of crime fiction but of Australian letters.' NED KELLY AWARDS
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.
“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.' 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
WYATT'S BEEN AWAY. NOW HE'S BACK.
The job's a classic jewel heist: quick, clean and simple. Except for one thing. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this job belongs to Eddie Oberin and his very smart ex-wife Lydia. She has the inside information; Wyatt has the planning genius and meticulous preparation. What could possibly go wrong?
Plenty. But when you cross Wyatt, you don't 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.
'Disher at his stylish best…Wicked and wonderful. Welcome back, Wyatt.' Sydney Morning Herald
‘I hope we don't have to wait another decade for the next instalment.' Age
‘Lean, cold and spare—right to the point and never a word too many.' Herald Sun
‘Australian noir writ large across Melbourne suburbia.' GQ
‘Disher's writing is short, dry and fast-paced.' West Australian
Wyatt steals $ 50,000 and a sought-after piece of jewelry in a burglary of a politician's house. Wyatt snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his bolthole in Hobart. It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch - and perhaps the girl - that brings him undone. Now some very hard people want to put Wyatt and that brooch out of circulation. But this is Wyatt's game and Wyatt sets the rules - even if it means a reckoning somewhere far from home.
Port Vila Blues is Wyatt's fifth heist. It's faster than ever, racing towards the inevitable confrontation on a clifftop above the deceptively calm waters of Port Vila Bay.
'In a murky world where the cops are robbers, old-style crim Wyatt positively shines. Clear taut writing - not a word wasted.' MARELE DAY, author of Lambs of God
'Tough, violent, relentless and thoroughly convincing.' STUART COUPE, author of The Roadies
'To Disher's usual brisk pacing, add heaps of noir...a banquet for those who like it uncut and unsparing.' KIRKUS REVIEWS
Seit zwanzig Jahren ist Wyatt Berufsverbrecher alter Schule. Er hat seine Regeln, und er lässt niemals zu, dass sie gebrochen werden. Aber Wyatt hat auch seine Zweifel, wie das Leben weitergehen soll. Denn mittlerweile laufen seine Coups nicht mehr gut, er ist pleite, und nun hat auch noch eine Bande von Autoschiebern und Betrügern aus Melbourne ein Kopfgeld auf ihn ausgesetzt. Schnell wird der Jäger Wyatt zum Gejagten ...
Wyatt muss untertauchen, nachdem der letzte Job völlig in die Hosen ging. Die Polizei fahndet nach ihm, und das Syndikat hat ein Kopfgeld auf ihn angesetzt. Ein zwielichtiger Typ namens Enter Stolle, der sich darauf spezialisiert hat, Leute zu suchen, die nicht gefunden werden wollen, ist auch hinter Wyatt her, um ihn für einen Klienten in Brisbane aufzuspüren. Es geht um einen Bankjob, der zwei Millionen bringen kann ... ein Kinderspiel für Wyatt, normalerweise, wenn nicht ein hochverschuldeten Bankdirektor, ein Waffen schmuggelnder Pilot, korrupte Bullen und ehrgeizige Punks dazwischenfunken würden.
Wyatt made some powerful enemies in his first three outings, and the time has come to confront them. But we know by now that Wyatt's revenge won't be showy, impetuous and futile; it will be pragmatic, elaborate—and still possibly futile. He holes up in Sydney, preparing to return home to Melbourne to play his enemies against each other in a dangerous double-cross that will tear down the notions of loyalty and obligation. Wyatt is meticulous, demanding and implacable, and this may be the toughest, coolest and most uncompromising series in Australian literature. ‘Violent, gripping, realistic.' SUNDAY AGE ‘As hard as it gets and very entertaining.' WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
Wyatt hat es auf die Lohngelder einer Baufirma abgesehen, die im australischen Busch eine Pipeline verlegt. Gemeinsam mit Leah, einer ehemaligen Prostituierten, stellt er ein Team zusammen, um den Geldtransporter abzufangen. Doch sie sind nicht die Einzigen, die Beute machen wollen. Zu allem Überfluss setzen die Mesics aus Sydney den suspendierten Ex-Bullen Letterman als Kopfgeldjäger auf Wyatt an, weil der ihnen einst bei einem Drogendeal in Melbourne in die Quere kam. Alles in allem keine guten Voraussetzungen für Wyatt, um ungestört arbeiten zu können.
Patient, exacting and not particularly lucky, Wyatt is a criminal's criminal and this series is one of the most compelling in Australian fiction. After the heists gone wrong in Kickback and Paydirt, Wyatt is further down on his luck and deeper in with the Outfit, a network of organised criminals whose attention he's tried hard to avoid. A risky job in a Brisbane bank and the return of a femme fatale add further complications to Wyatt's increasingly desperate situation and force him to decide who he is and who he cares about. 'Disher writes with all the compassion of a well-placed bullet in the back of the head.' J.R. Carroll 'Real books, not junk fiction.' Booklist 'Wyatt's as hard-boiled as a hubcap.' Weekend Australian
Careful, exacting and ruthless, Wyatt is a consummate criminal and a solitary giant in Australian crime writing. This time it's a payroll and bank run in the north of South Australia, an outpost town suddenly transformed by a pipeline construction project that brings petty crime, prostitution-and opportunity. It's a town with its own secrets and Wyatt isn't quick to trust at the best of times. But he's on the run and he can't afford to be choosy. This is another masterpiece of orchestration and unravelling, anchored by an unforgettable ticking-clock sequence that will keep you listening. Fans of noir and hard-boiled fiction will find a fascinating extension of the genre. 'Different, fantastic and the series just gets better and better.' AUSTCRIME
The first book in the acclaimed Wyatt series, by one of Australia's most revered crime writers. Wyatt robs banks and payroll vans. Most men like him are dead or in jail, but Wyatt stamps a cold, pitiless style on his heists and has never been caught. Now his funds are low and his luck is running out - until the day Anna Reid explains about the kickback in her partner's safe. But other players are involved. In Wyatt's world, there is no yielding, no redemption, and when he's crossed, the outcome is inevitable. 'Tough, realistic, crime-from-the-inside...' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
