Robert G. Barrett

It isn't every day you help murder someone with poison in an illegal casino, whisk his body halfway across town in a Rolls Royce after robbing him....

Les Norton, a big red-headed country boy from Queensland, has just arrived in the big smoke and is set to make his mark....

Les thought that playing minder to Peregrine Normanhurst III sounded like a dead-set snack: Les would keep Peregrine out of trouble....

They don't call him Lucky Les for nothing. A ticket in a raffle and Norton was off to the US of A, where it turned out hot, red hot, and it wasn't just the weather....

Norton needed a holiday - anywhere - as long as it was out of Bondi. Price was only too willing to oblige - Les could have his house at Terrigal....

Arranging the hit on Fabio was a low act, and Les knew it....

All Les Norton wanted was a quiet coffee and Sacher cake at the Hakoah Club in Bondi, and to be left alone to sort out his troubled love life....

All easy-going butcher Bob Davis wanted after his divorce was to get on with his job, have a few beers with his mates, and be left alone....

Les is back and on the detox. All it took was a summer's day and a flat tire on his push-bike, and Les is out on bail and on the run from a gun-happy street gang intent on a drive-by....

This book was first published in 1996 under the title Rider on the Storm and Other Bits of Barrett....

Robert G. Barrrett's latest Les Norton adventure, The Wind and the Monkey, set in Port Stephens, NSW, is a romance as well as an adventure....

There's no two ways about Les Norton - the carrot-topped country boy who works as a bouncer at Sydney's top illegal casino....

The Tesla Legacy is an action-packed, pace-driven thriller woven with intrigue and a delightful touch of humour and romance....

Les figured by tossing $50,000 into the Gull's movie he'd become the next Sam Goldwyn....

Rosa-Marie's Baby is action, romance, and intrigue with a diabolical twist....

An amusing, often outrageous, collection of the best columns Robert G.Barrett wrote for People magazine, focusing on Australian life and its heroes and villains....

Look out Wagga Wagga. Les Norton's in town and he feels like dancing....

Okay, so it looks like the Kelly Club is finally closing down - it had to happen sooner or later.....

Les Norton is not finding much joy in his search for the missing fim script. Especially not while fighting a sadistic giant, when the only thing that can save him is the Mongolian Death Lock....

Just when everything was going so good, Les slips a disc in his back. He can't run, he can't train. He can't do anything much. But he can still drive his car....