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Port Vila Blues by Garry Disher. A Wyatt Wareen Mystery.
Review summary: There are no distracting backstories, no narrative-filling side trips, nothing here but a straight-to-it caper-style crime novel. And it's a very good one, indeed. As good as the story is, however, it is really the character of Wyatt himself that makes it all work. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Port Vila Blues
Garry Disher
A Wyatt Wareen Mystery
Soho Crime (August 2012)
Publisher synopsis: Wyatt, the cool, ever-evasive thief, snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his hideout in Hobart. It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch — and perhaps the girl — that undoes him.
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. In a murky world where the cops are robbers, old-style criminal Wyatt positively shines.
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