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BITTER WASH ROAD

Garry Disher

When Hirsch heads up Bitter Wash Road to investigate the gunfire he finds himself cut off without backup. A pair of thrill killers has been targeting isolated farmhouses on lonely backroads, but Hirsch's first thought is that ‘backup' is nearby—and about to put a bullet in him.

Because Hirsch is a whistle-blower. Formerly a promising metropolitan officer, now demoted, despised and exiled to a one-cop station in South Australia's wheatbelt. Called a dog and a maggot by his brother officers. Threats; pistol cartridge in the mailbox.

But the shots on Bitter Wash Road don't tally with either of Hirsch's assumptions. The truth turns out to be a lot more mundane. And the events that unfold subsequently, a hell of a lot more sinister.

Garry Disher has published almost fifty titles—fiction, children's books, anthologies, textbooks, the Wyatt thrillers and the Mornington Peninsula mysteries. He has won numerous awards, including the German Crime Prize (twice) and two Ned Kelly Best Crime Novel awards.

BITTER WASH ROAD
Deutsch von Peter Torberg
[HC Unionsverlag 02/16; TB 07/17]
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Published 2013-11-01 by Text Publishing

Comments

No one does dryly poetic evocations of paranoia and human folly more seductively.

Smooth, assured mastery

Disher's writing is lean, cold and spare— right to the point and never a word too many.

USA: Soho Press (title: Hell to Pay); UK: Text;

Disher is a fine writer about place and also people.