Kill Shot is the ninth book in the Wyatt series by award-wining Australian author, Garry Disher. Wyatt is a thief. He’s a pretty successful thief because he’s efficient, unsentimental, discriminating, well-prepared, inventive, very careful and ever vigilant. Just lately, he’s doing his thieving in Sydney, because his broker for the thefts, Sam Kramer is in Watervale prison: they exchange information when Sam’s on day-release. They have a neat arrangement that benefits both Wyatt and Sam’s family.

But Sam’s son, Joshua would like a bigger share of the money Wyatt is holding in trust, to service his own failing businesses and his leisure activities, including his cocaine habit. He mentions the arrangement to his friend, Afghanistan vet Nick Lazar. Meanwhile, Wyatt checks out a very lucrative proposition: crooked financial advisor, Jack Tremayne is under investigation by the Securities and Investments Probity Commission and Kramer is convinced he’s planning to skip the country soon with the million he has safely stashed.

As Wyatt sets about establishing whether there really is a stash and where it might be, all the while staying under the radar, it seems his vigilance has not been sufficient: a certain detective sergeant has a bead on him. And if there’s a stash, Wyatt’s not the only one interested.

Disher gives the reader another excellent dose of Aussie crime fiction in which Wyatt: assumes and discards several identities, abodes and vehicles; hires or steals cars and boats as the situation requires; dons disguises; places and follows multiple GPS trackers; buys a drone; performs a bit of fancy boatwork; and acquires another gunshot scar. The plot takes several twists and there is plenty of action. Wyatt fans will not be disappointed and the next instalment will be eagerly anticipated.