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Is part of Gareth Ford Series Robert Schofield , 2013 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Heist
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''Ford laid his fingertips gently on the cut in his shoulder where the bullet had clipped him. His best chance would be to hitch a ride south at the first opportunity, before the police started looking for him. He was alone, enveloped in the monstrous silence of the desert. Free and alone, without assistance and without excuse.''

'Left for dead in the desert, framed as the inside man in a bullion robbery at the remote mine site where he works, and fearing that his daughter and ex-wife have been abducted from their home in Perth, Ford must cross a thousand miles of wilderness to find his family.'

'Ford forms a fragile alliance with Doc and Banjo, a pair of fugitive bikers, and Kavanagh, a cop from the Gold Stealing Detection Unit who's found herself shut out of the case. As this unlikely team sets out across the Outback, they are pursued by cops, mercenaries and bikers, each group with its own agenda for preventing Ford from reaching Perth and uncovering a conspiracy that spreads through the upper strata of Western Australian life.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Launched by Tom Percy QC, from 7pm, Thursday 4 July 2013 at Planet Books, Mt Lawley, WA.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2013 .
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      Extent: 373p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: July 2013
      ISBN: 9781743315200 (pbk.)

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Review : Heist Mitchell Jordan , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , October 2013; (p. 33)

— Review of Heist Robert Schofield , 2013 single work novel
New Australian Fiction Ed Wright , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 July 2013; (p. 25)

— Review of Heist Robert Schofield , 2013 single work novel ; Who We Were Lucy Neave , 2013 single work novel ; A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists Jane Rawson , 2013 single work novel ; Fin Rising Paul W. Newman , 2013 single work novel
[Review] Heist Barry Dick , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 29-30 June 2013; (p. 20)

— Review of Heist Robert Schofield , 2013 single work novel
[Review] Heist Barry Dick , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 29-30 June 2013; (p. 20)

— Review of Heist Robert Schofield , 2013 single work novel
New Australian Fiction Ed Wright , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 July 2013; (p. 25)

— Review of Heist Robert Schofield , 2013 single work novel ; Who We Were Lucy Neave , 2013 single work novel ; A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists Jane Rawson , 2013 single work novel ; Fin Rising Paul W. Newman , 2013 single work novel
Review : Heist Mitchell Jordan , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , October 2013; (p. 33)

— Review of Heist Robert Schofield , 2013 single work novel
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