Robert G. Barrett

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....

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

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

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

Rider on the Storm and Other Bits is Les Norton at his worst and Robert G. Barrett at his best....

There were two bodies buried under the handball courts at the Bondi baths. The man to get them out? Major Garrick Lewis, aka, The Gecko.....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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

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....

Les Norton's Hawaiian holiday should have been just like in the tourist brochures. Balmy days, blue seas, palm tress swaying in the moonlight. And it would have been if Les had minded his own business....

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....

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....

From FM radio to FN Queensland, Goodoo Goodoo is the latest Les Norton adventure....

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

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....

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