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Cargando... Kickback (1991)por Garry Disher
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This didn't turn out quite how I had anticipated. Obviously Garry Disher's more recent novels have been police procedurals and this was an earlier work from the perspective of a career criminal, but nevertheless I was expecting Wyatt to be more sympathetic somehow. This was a short, well-written read, but there was a lot of casual violence, and it didn't make me want to continue with this series. I have read several of Disher's novels in the Wyatt series and they are all quite competent, noir in the manner of Quarry, and Parker, and Keller. This was the first in the series and I wish I had read it first. They are all stand-alones, but this one sets the stage, if you will. As with Lawrence Block, all of Disher's creations are wonderful ways to spend an afternoon. Get them all. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The Hal Challis series consist primarily of police procedurals, with an ensemble cast. Maybe I should call the Wyatt series "criminal" procedurals. For Wyatt is a criminal. Most of the time he is traveling, usually abroad from Australia, or, more recently spending time on his farm in the countryside outside Melbourne, where he is believed to be a former stock broker who made it big in the market and now merely dabbles. A couple of times a year, he disappears for a while, planning and executing a "job", usually a bank robbery, to finance his lifestyle until he begins to run out of money and must do another job.
This, the first entry in the series, opens with Wyatt doing a small job, almost a favor for a mobster, with the proceeds of which he hopes to finance a more financially rewarding job. Unfortunately, the mobster has foisted on Wyatt the assistance of his incompetent younger brother, and the small, supposedly simple job goes awry. Wyatt gets paid, and the remainder of the book focuses on Wyatt's planning and execution of a much more complicated job, which is further complicated by the mobster's brother wanting revenge on Wyatt and constantly creating snafus.
I liked this a lot. Not as much as Hal Challis, but I can see treats ahead--there are 9 Wyatt books. It's intriguing to watch as Wyatt plans down to the most minute details an intricate job, hires the exactly compatible specialist accomplices, and arranges everything so it should all go off without a hitch. And then, there's always a hitch, something always goes awry, so we get to see how Wyatt will wriggle out of it and save himself.
Recommended.
3 1/2 stars ( )