Mark's Reviews > Kickback

The first of Disher's "Wyatt" series, which can be read as an Australian homage to Richard Stark's (Donald Westlake's) "Parker"--except that it's also fantastic in its own right. Wyatt is a tough, mean, methodical criminal, and you don't want to cross him. Disher writes clean, tight, but also somehow literary hard-boiled prose, and this story of a heist and assorted double-crossings is tough to put down. Highly recommended if you can find it--long OP and almost impossible to track down. As a bonus, the Aussie slang is fantastic--I was glad I'd spent some time Down Under so I could follow at least a bit of it.