Port Vila Blues: A Wyatt Novel (Allen & Unwin Original Fiction.) [Paperback]

Garry Disher (Author)

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Publication Date: October 1996 | Series: Allen & Unwin Original Fiction.

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 towrads 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 ...tough, violent, relentless and thoroughly convincing Stuart Coupe

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"Like an Australian Bob le Flambeur, Disher's titular robber is smooth, calm and planning a big heist."—Entertainment Weekly --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

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 series is also published in the US by Soho Crime. He lives on the Mornington Peninsula, south-east of Melbourne. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1864480254
• ISBN-13: 978-1864480252
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,136,253 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Garry Disher lives in Australia and is the author of over 40 books: novels, short story collections, writers' handbooks, history textbooks and children's fiction. His Challis and Destry police procedurals, and his Wyatt crime from the inside thrillers, are gaining international recognition, winning best crime novel of the year awards in Australia and Germany and appearing on best books of the year lists in the USA. Garry has toured Germany twice and the States once, and counts a scholarship year spent in the Stanford University creative writing school, early in his career, as one of his most important formative experiences.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Autralian Parker (Richard stark)., May 15, 2006

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This review is from: Port Vila Blues: A Wyatt Novel (Allen & Unwin Original Fiction.) (Paperback)

The 5th installment in the 6 book Wyatt series is another great caper story in the tradition of Richard Stark's Parker series.
Wyatt (the Australian Parker) is as down and dirty and remorseless as Parker and the caper plots are as well written (actually a little more "literate") and hardboiled as Richard Stark's.
There are no Good guys in either series. Just some not as bad as others.
If you like 'em nasty, violent and hardboiled with believable "low tech" action, then this is THE series for you.
Along with Stark/Parker, this is one of the 2 BEST Crime series EVER printed.
So get them all-in order....Kickback, Paydirt, Deathdeal, Crosskill, Port Vila Blues and The Fallout....
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED reading for the "criminal" mind.