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Title details for Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher - Available

Bitter Wash Road

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by Garry Disher
Shaun Grindell
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'Shots fired on Bitter Wash Road...'
Hirsch is a whistle-blower. Formerly a promising metropolitan officer, now hated and despised. Exiled to a one-cop station in South Australia's wheatbelt. Threats. Pistol cartridge in the mailbox.
So when he heads up Bitter Wash Road to investigate gunfire and finds himself cut off without backup, there are two possibilities. Either he's found the fugitive killers thought to be in the area. Or his 'backup' is about to put a bullet in him.
He's wrong on both counts. But the events that unfold turn out to be a lot more sinister.
'One of ¬Australia's best-written crime fictions to date.' Australian
'Bitter Wash Road is superb.' Weekend Australian
'Peter Temple and Garry Disher will be identified as the crime writers who redefined Australian crime fiction in terms of its form, content and style...'Disher's eye for detail is acute and his poetic analogies precise...Bitter Wash Road continues the work of re-imagining the crime genre in a very Australian way, and does it beautifully.' Age/Sydney Morning Herald
'Disher is definitely not to be missed.' Globe & Mail
'Smooth, assured mastery.' New York Times Book Review
'Exceptional crime fiction.' Courier-Mail
'Not a word is wasted: here the ancient, bare, distinctive landscape of the hardscrabble country bordering Goyder's Line is conveyed with admirably atmospheric economy.' Adelaide Advertiser
'A top-class writer.' The Times
'Disher turns out to be a superb chronicler of macho cop culture.' Sunday Times
'An absolute corker of a crime novel and puts him up there with the likes of Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin and John Harvey...This is a superbly well-plotted thriller, beautifully written—especially the descriptions of the harsh outback—and with an intriguing hero, an honest cop faced with dishonesty at every turn.' Shotsmag
'Fast-paced, funny, and believable.'Bookmunch

  • Creators

  • Series

    Paul Hirschhausen

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 1, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781528802628
      • File size: 299888 KB
      • Duration: 10:24:45

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Books+Publishing

      September 19, 2013
      Garry Disher’s new novel is a rewarding mix of small-town policing and corruption, parish politics, vested interests and the closing of ranks against an outsider. The outsider in question is Hirsch, a whistleblower cop whose ‘reward’ has been demotion and exile to a one-cop police station in outback South Australia, where he is ordered to investigate the hit-and-run killing of a local teenage girl, but directed not to rock the boat. Everything is stacked against him, Disher convincingly depicting the stultifyingly insular nature of the community and its resentment of an outsider poking around. When it appears a local farmer’s wife has committed suicide in ambiguous circumstances, Hirsch becomes convinced that there are secrets, perhaps other crimes, to be uncovered even though his own boss is ordering him to back off. He is, of course, right. The story builds to a satisfying conclusion following a large public meeting during which some very unsavoury police behaviour, and its cover-up by vested interests, is exposed. The pace of this novel is nicely measured:  fans of good crime fiction and Australian writing alike should enjoy it.

      Max Oliver is a veteran Sydney bookseller and avid crime reader

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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