âShots fired on Bitter Wash RoadâŠ'
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 âbackup' 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.
âOne of ÂŹAustralia's best-written crime fictions to date.' Australian
âBitter Wash Road is superb.' Weekend Australian
âPeter Temple and Garry Disher will be identified as the crime writers who redefined Australian crime fiction in terms of its form, content and styleâŠ'Disher's eye for detail is acute and his poetic analogies preciseâŠBitter Wash Road continues the work of re-imagining the crime genre in a very Australian way, and does it beautifully.' Age/Sydney Morning Herald
âDisher is definitely not to be missed.' Globe amp; Mail
âSmooth, assured mastery.' New York Times Book Review
âExceptional crime fiction.' Courier-Mail
âNot 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
âA top-class writer.' The Times
âDisher turns out to be a superb chronicler of macho cop culture.' Sunday Times
âAn absolute corker of a crime novel and puts him up there with the likes of Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin and John HarveyâŠThis is a superbly well-plotted thriller, beautifully writtenâespecially the descriptions of the harsh outbackâand with an intriguing hero, an honest cop faced with dishonesty at every turn.' Shotsmag
âFast-paced, funny, and believable.âBookmunch