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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Just a Typical Ozzie Battler,
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This review is from: You Wouldn't Be Dead for Quids (Paperback)
2nd in the Les Norton Series. . .
read "The Real Thing" first if you can. I'm too lazy to review every book in the series, and I don't think the quality is as good in the later books, but the first 4 books in the series rank emeritus in my book-shelf-of-made-me-laugh-out-loud. For rock-solid,dead-on unblinking observation of the Oz milieu and its mores, for perfect sampling of the unique Oz-english patois, for memorable characterizations, for hilarious Tarentino-ish cartoon violence, these books have no equal. Les Norton is a former rugby player, now a bouncer at an illegal casino in Kings Cross in Sydney. A simple Queensland country-boy somewhat lost in the sophisticated urbane Sydney, somehow his native common sense, red-haired temper, and fists like two hams keep him clear. He fights, he loves, he gets involved in amazing, unbelievable "rorts" (scams), he stars in tv commercials with disastrous consequences. Yes, Les Norton is Everyman, Candide, and Robin Hood all rolled-up into one 17-pound penguin (which is how he looks in a tuxedo at the casino every night). Murder Mysteries/Crime Novels rely on the realistic ambience created by detailed accurate descriptions and these depictions of the night life down in the Cross will make you homesick even if you ain't never been there.
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