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You Wouldn't Be Dead for Quids
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 29
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Les Norton, a big red-headed country boy from Queensland, has just arrived in the big smoke and is set to make his mark. Working as a bouncer at an illegal casino in the Cross, Les encounters a number of fascinating characters who make up the seamier side of one of the most exciting cities in the world – gamblers, conmen, bookies, bouncers, hookers and hit men, who ply their respective trades from the golden sands of Bondi to the tainted gutters of Kings Cross... usually on the wrong side of the law.
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4 out of 5 stars
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norton
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The Godson
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Les thought that playing minder to Peregrine Normanhurst III sounded like a dead-set snack: Les would keep Peregrine out of trouble. So what if he was on the run from the IRA? They’d never follow him to Australia… But Les quickly finds himself thrust into an adventure that moves at breakneck speed from the corridors of power in Canberra to the grimy tenements of Belfast, to climax in a nerve-shattering, blood-spattered shoot out on a survivalist fortress in the Tweed Valley.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant !!
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Between the Devlin and the Deep Blue Sea
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Okay, so it looks like the Kelly Club is finally closing down - it had to happen sooner or later. And it isn’t as if Les Norton will starve. He has money snookered away, he owns his house, and his blue-chip investment - a block of flats in Randwick - must be worth a fortune by now. Except that the place is falling down, the council is reclaiming the land, there’s been a murder in Flat 5, and the tenants are the biggest bunch of misfits since the Manson family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
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Mele Kalikimaka Mr. Walker
- Les Norton, Book 8
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Norton's old friend turned out to be the biggest brothel owner in America. Madam to the stars. Through her, Les met Mitzi Moonkiss; he also met the Japanese Yakuza, lesbian geisha girls and every time he put his head out the door some boofhead US Marine was looking for a fight. And these were all the nice people. Somewhere in the middle a crazed serial killer was on the loose with a bayonet. Aloha, Les.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Robert Barrett ya Legend.
- By David on 04-22-15
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The Day of the Gecko
- Les Norton, Book 9
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 10
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Moving into his old flame Susie's flat in Bondi should have been a piece of cake for Les Norton - except that Price and Eddie had other ideas. 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. With Norton for company, The Gecko literally took Bondi, and everything that went with it, in stride - Mossad hit squads, the KGB, ASIO, yobbo builders and loose women looking for action. And for once, Les is flat out keeping up.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ace! Loved it!
- By Nick on 05-09-15
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The Real Thing
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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, then bury his body in tonnes of concrete underneath an international airport - all more or less with the co-operation of two detectives. Les Norton is back in town! Trouble seems to follow Les like a blue heeler after a mob of sheep. Maybe it's his job - being a bouncer at the infamous and illegal Kelly Club in Kings Cross isn't exactly the stuff a quiet life is made of.
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You Wouldn't Be Dead for Quids
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4 out of 5 stars 30
Les Norton, a big red-headed country boy from Queensland, has just arrived in the big smoke and is set to make his mark. Working as a bouncer at an illegal casino in the Cross, Les encounters a number of fascinating characters who make up the seamier side of one of the most exciting cities in the world – gamblers, conmen, bookies, bouncers, hookers and hit men, who ply their respective trades from the golden sands of Bondi to the tainted gutters of Kings Cross... usually on the wrong side of the law.
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4 out of 5 stars
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norton
- By Tracey on 08-31-14
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The Godson
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Les thought that playing minder to Peregrine Normanhurst III sounded like a dead-set snack: Les would keep Peregrine out of trouble. So what if he was on the run from the IRA? They’d never follow him to Australia… But Les quickly finds himself thrust into an adventure that moves at breakneck speed from the corridors of power in Canberra to the grimy tenements of Belfast, to climax in a nerve-shattering, blood-spattered shoot out on a survivalist fortress in the Tweed Valley.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant !!
- By David on 01-02-15
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Between the Devlin and the Deep Blue Sea
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 15
Okay, so it looks like the Kelly Club is finally closing down - it had to happen sooner or later. And it isn’t as if Les Norton will starve. He has money snookered away, he owns his house, and his blue-chip investment - a block of flats in Randwick - must be worth a fortune by now. Except that the place is falling down, the council is reclaiming the land, there’s been a murder in Flat 5, and the tenants are the biggest bunch of misfits since the Manson family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- By david on 12-31-14
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Mele Kalikimaka Mr. Walker
- Les Norton, Book 8
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Norton's old friend turned out to be the biggest brothel owner in America. Madam to the stars. Through her, Les met Mitzi Moonkiss; he also met the Japanese Yakuza, lesbian geisha girls and every time he put his head out the door some boofhead US Marine was looking for a fight. And these were all the nice people. Somewhere in the middle a crazed serial killer was on the loose with a bayonet. Aloha, Les.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Robert Barrett ya Legend.
- By David on 04-22-15
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The Day of the Gecko
- Les Norton, Book 9
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4 out of 5 stars 10
Moving into his old flame Susie's flat in Bondi should have been a piece of cake for Les Norton - except that Price and Eddie had other ideas. 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. With Norton for company, The Gecko literally took Bondi, and everything that went with it, in stride - Mossad hit squads, the KGB, ASIO, yobbo builders and loose women looking for action. And for once, Les is flat out keeping up.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ace! Loved it!
- By Nick on 05-09-15
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White Shoes, White Lines and Blackie
- Les Norton, Book 6
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 12
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. How he let notorious conman Kelvin Kramer talk him up to Surfers Paradise for five days, Les will never know. He went along expecting some relaxation in the sun, the chance to earn a little money, and possibly a little fresh romance. Les definitely got the earn. He certainly got the girl. But what Norton mainly got in Surfers Paradise was trouble. In a size 40 Double-D cup.
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4 out of 5 stars
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white shoes
- By Tracey on 09-25-14
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Leaving Bondi
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Les figured by tossing $50,000 into the Gull's movie he'd become the next Sam Goldwyn. Only someone put a bomb on the film set. And who gets the blame? Now Norton's a fugitive from the law, desperate to prove his innocence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Still enjoyable
- By Laurie on 02-04-12
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And De Fun Don't Done
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4 out of 5 stars 25
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. Night club brawls, mafia hitmen, and too many girls called Lori, all in a sea of margaritas. Even for Les Norton, it was just too hot to handle. So it was off to the Caribbean, where Millwood Downie - schoolteacher, historian, and would-be stand-up comic - helps Les trace his family tree and possibly uncover the biggest earn ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listening to the makes me feel good
- By david on 12-31-14
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High Noon in Nimbin
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 7
Arranging the hit on Fabio was a low act, and Les knew it. And when you get Sydney's deadliest killer to do the hit, there's always a quid pro quo. In this case, Les had to take a trip to Nimbin to help an old army mate of Eddie Salita's open a bar, the Double L Ranch. Which suited Les, since he had to take his friend Tony Nathan to the waxhead wedding of the year at Bluey's Beach, and it was on the way. The waxhead wedding of the year turned into the ethnic brawl of the decade.
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Mystery Bay Blues
- By: Robert G Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 9
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. So it's down to Narooma for the South Coast Blues Festival and a bit of R&R: 30 bands and three days and nights of non-stop rock 'n' roll. Which would have been great, only Les has to have a slight altercation with four fishermen on his first night in town. Now the toughest, meanest, most horrible bloke on the south coast is after his blood.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mystery Bay Blues
- By K. Pearson on 05-11-09
By: Robert G Barrett
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The Wind and the Monkey
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 8
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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 - proving once again Barrett's enormous appeal to both men and women readers.
Publisher's Summary
There's no two ways about Les Norton - the carrot-topped country boy who works as a bouncer at Sydney's top illegal casino. He's tough and he's mean. He's got a granite jaw, fists like hams, and they say the last time he took a tenner from his wallet Henry Lawson blinked at the light. Lethal but loyal, he's always good for a laugh. In this, the third collection of Les Norton adventures, Les gets his boss off the hook. But not without the help of the boy from Binjiwunyawunya. Les then finds himself in a spot of bother in Long Bay Gaol then in a lot more bother on a St. Kilda tram in Melbourne.
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- david
- 12-31-14
Great, captures the true essence of AUSTRALIA <br />
Love this author and narrator. Just a romping good story. It is very funny in an unique Australian way. I am not sure that non Australians will understand the book
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- Jocke
- 09-20-15
Les Norton goes to Melbourne
À bit slow at first but turns out to be à funfilled actionpacked trip to Melbourne. Does not really revolve too much around The Boys.
If you enjoyed other Les Norton adventures, I Am sure you Will like this one too! Sad that The author has passed, I have read most of his books
And would Love to have had The chance to read many more
Joachim Stockholm Sweden
On location in Turkey where I listened to this one!
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- Mike
- 08-31-14
Enjoyable
What did you like best about this story?
I like the laid back writing style. The stories travel at their own pace.
What does Dino Marnika bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Good ozy accent and a style that is not rushed but still very interesting.
Who was the most memorable character of The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya and why?
Les being the main character still stand out.
Any additional comments?
If you are after a fast moving adventure you may be disappointed BUT with the way that it is written I was not bored at all and really enjoyed the style of writing.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Tracey
- 07-11-14
the boys
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
yes its a good norton book
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya?
norton in longbay jail for a stupid fine
Which scene was your favorite?
the boys at home in binjiwunya wunya sounds like a cool spot to chillout
If you could take any character from The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya out to dinner, who would it be and why?
les norton he likes good food
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- peter
- 11-07-15
Go Les
Another great tale. These are so well written and narrated you feel as if your apart of it.
Becoming addicted
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- Annette
- 04-25-15
Absolutely hilarious!
Les is full of mischief again. Seems to find trouble every where he goes but still manages to survive it all. Very funny!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-17-19
Entertaining, Politically Incorrect
Funny Australian stories told in a style long since killed off by the PC Police.