Fallout

by Garry Disher Narrated by Dorje Swallow

Overview

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

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

At the start of Disher's fast-paced sixth Wyatt novel (after Port Vila Blues), the Australian career criminal slipping away from his police woman lover, Liz Redding, to sell some stolen jewelry, but the exchange goes sour and Wyatt barely escapes the police. When he crosses paths with nephew Raymond, likewise a criminal of some note, Wyatt reluctantly decides to team with Raymond, who has a well-founded reputation for unreliability. Hot-headed Raymond is also prone to poor decisions, as shown by his choice to provoke the violent ire of Steer, a hard man who already has a grudge against Wyatt. What should have been a quick score rapidly evolves into a struggle for survival. Disher's prose is as clean and straightforward as ever, though the plot amounts to a series of digressions as old history and human fallibility derail grand schemes, despite the best efforts of his coolly professional protagonist. Fans should note that the seventh entry, Wyatt, is already available in the U.S. (July)

From the Publisher

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

Kirkus Reviews

Peerless Aussie thief Wyatt teams up with his not-so-peerless nephew Ray for a high-stakes caper that's got failure written all over it. Despite the different outfits he wears for each job, the Victoria Police know that the same man is responsible for all the shotgun-fueled bank jobs they've been investigating. What they don't know is that the bush bandit is Raymond Wyatt, the estranged nephew of the crook who's been a thorn in the constabulary's side for a dog's years. Not content to stay with a life of honest stickups, Ray's been smooth-talked by gambler Brian Vallance and his much younger girlfriend, Allie Roder, into going shares on an independent, illegal salvage operation that promises to net the partners millions. Ray plans to raise the money he needs to buy in by pulling an art heist on commission from a crooked lawyer, and since he needs a partner, he naturally thinks of his uncle, who's capped his latest jewel robbery (Port Vila Blues, 2012) by drugging Sgt. Liz Redding, the cop who chased him all the way to his bedroom, and running out on her. But before the two Wyatts go after those lightly guarded paintings, Ray unwisely accepts another offer of £15,000 to break murderous holdup man Tony Steer out of jail. He plans to keep this little commission secret from his uncle, but an explosion of violence brings it to Wyatt's attention anyway. Nor does the theft of those paintings come off quite as Ray expects. There's a little too much of the younger Wyatt, who's nowhere near as compelling as his uncle, but Disher continues to show an impressive knack for planning capers that go like clockwork but then come to grief anyway.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940174978003
Publisher:	Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd
Publication date:	07/01/2022
Series:	Wyatt , #6
Edition description:	Unabridged

Read an Excerpt

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.’
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