Powder Boy

Powder Boy

By Steven Smith

www.stevenswords.co.uk

Powder Boy is a dark ‘Alfie’ for the twenty-first century.

Jarvis Sotiris is a regular Essex lad with an eye for the main chance. His stunning looks and raw sex appeal have London’s rich and famous fawning.

Jarvis works as a personal trainer in London’s most colourful gym. He meets a host of interesting and eccentric characters. They include Max, a bitchy public relations guru to the stars, who becomes a mentor to the tattooed hunk and the doors of London’s bright and glamorous party circuit open to Jarvis. There’s just one problem, he is broke.

To subsidise his new lifestyle Jarvis starts moonlighting as a coke dealer. He becomes a ‘must have’ on the social circuit. But Jarvis has no desire to be famous. He craves love and a simple lifestyle. He’s desperate to ditch his drug-taking, sado-masochistic girlfriend Shell, but his sexual addiction to her has him hooked.

Then he meets Samantha Harris, a stunning young heiress. When Samantha hires him as her personal trainer for an FHM shoot, the normally cocksure Jarvis is out of his depth with a woman for the first time in his life.

Samantha seduces Jarvis and draws him into her life, but not without a fight from psychotic Shell, who isn’t pleased at being dumped. Their rivalry reaches its explosive climax outside one of London’s top nightspots.

Jarvis finds himself an overnight celebrity - the Essex playboy who has won the heart of Britain’s most beautiful heiress. But things begin to sour when he finds himself an unwilling participant in Samantha’s new reality TV show.

There’s an even bigger problem; Samantha’s father, Malcolm Harris, a billionaire property developer with underworld connections. He can’t bear his angel dating a common lad like Jarvis, and sends in his men.

Then there’s David McFadden, one of London’s top drug dealers -nicknamed ‘McFagin’ for recruiting and corrupting young boys. He’s after Jarvis for a promised meeting with Denise Van Outen. The heat is really on.

Jarvis’s new friends bring their own stresses. There’s Hammel, a coke-snorting film star who’s hired Jarvis to get him in shape for a nude scene in his latest movie ‘Gangster Love’; and landlady Kath, a former madam and high-class call girl, who knows all the seedy secrets of London’s high society. They both have eyes for Jarvis’s body.

As his life spins out of control Jarvis realises that someone unknown is manipulating his every step. When things fall apart and his ‘friends’ show their true colours, Jarvis turns to the one person he’s learned to love and trust. But is Max really who Jarvis thinks he is? Or is Jarvis about to get the shock of his young life?

Powder Boy will take you from the grim backstreets of London to the glamorous hills of Los Angeles and the exotic beaches of the Caribbean. You’ll be shocked and surprised by the myriad twists and turns of Jarvis’s world.

Powder Boy is an intimate look at the dark underbelly of showbiz, celebrity and drugs