Robert G. Barrett (1942–2012)

El electricista Mick Vincent tenía casi todo lo que siempre había querido tener en la vida. Lo único que le faltaba para ser feliz era un plato de presión del embrague para su Buick Roadmaster de 1936. A través de una extraña anciana, Mick encuentra la codiciada pieza. Y también el diario de Nikola Tesla, un reputado genio de la electricidad con fama de ser más inteligente que el propio Einstein. Pero ¿qué hacía Tesla en la deprimida Nueva Gales del Sur en 1925? El Pentágono lo sabe, y Mick y su novia Jesse lo quieren averiguar: empieza la competición para dar con el legado de Tesla. Las pistas conducen a una remota mina de cobre y a un viejo caballo de carreras llamado Lágrimas de Fuego.… (mehr)

When Robert G. Barrett created Les Norton, he presumably thought that Norton would be considered a likeable character. Norton is not. Indeed, he has few, if any, likeable characteristics. Add the fact that Barrett wasn't the greatest writer around, means that And De Fun Don't Done is a difficult book to like or even finish.

And De Fun Don't Done has Norton winning free flights to the US but after getting sick of Florida, heads to Jamaica and meets up with Rastafarians and gets into his usual tangles, including meeting a lot of women who for some inexplicable reason find Norton handsome. Please avoid reading this.… (mehr)

The first Les Norton book is one of the better in the series; not quite as misogynistic as later entries and the jokes and tropes are still relatively fresh here, although You wouldn't be dead for quids shows its age as a child of 1980s Sydney.

Norton, a rugby league player from country Queensland, comes to the big smoke of Sydney to play for South Sydney, gets punted from said club for punching out an official, and finds himself a gig as a bouncer at an illegal casino in Kings Cross. Here he gets up to all sorts of occasionally humorous shenanigans.… (mehr)