Former bouncer, mercenary, bodyguard and trainer
of bodyguards, Robin Barratt is the author of the genre
best-selling Doing the Doors, Confessions of a Doorman and
Maria’s Story. During 20 long years on the doors, Barratt
worked all over the UK, from Manchester and London to Mansfield,
Nottingham and Norwich. He also provided personal protection,
mainly to the corporate community, in high-risk areas, including
the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Israel, Bosnia (during
the conflict) and Russia, a country he specialises in. He hopes to
retire soon to the west coast of France, where he can live
peacefully and write fiction.