Bitter Wash Road av Garry Disher

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''Disher shows that he is a top-class writer'' - THE TIMES''Vivid and visceral, combined with Disher''s usual deft plotting'' - GUARDIAN''One of Australia''s most admired novelists'' - SUNDAY TIMES________________________________________ONE DEAD-END POSTING. ONE DEAD BODY.A TRAGIC ACCIDENT? THAT''S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK...Constable Paul ''Hirsch'' Hirschhausen is a whistle-blower. Formerly a promising metropolitan detective, now hated and despised, he''s been exiled to a one-cop station in South Australia''s wheatbelt. 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 Tiverton - with its stagnant economy, entrenched racism and rural isolation - has more crime than one constable can handle. And when the next call-out takes him to the body of a sixteen-yea