Powder Boy — Steven Smith

"Powder Boy" is a dark 'Alfie' for the twenty-first century Lester Middlehurst " Daily Mail 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 eccentric characters. They include Max, a bitchy public relations guru to the stars, who becomes a mentor to the tattooed hunk, helps open the doors of London's bright and glamorous party circuit open to Jarvis. To subsidise his new lifestyle Jarvis starts moonlighting as a coke dealer.. He's desperate to ditch his drug-taking, sex mad girlfriend Shell, but his sexual addiction to her has him hooked. Then he meets Samantha Harris, a stunning young heiress The normally cocksure Jarvis is out of his depth with a woman for the first time in his life. 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. His new friends bring their own stresses. There's Hammel, a coke-snorting film star who's hired Jarvis to get him in shape and landlady Kath, a former madam who knows all the seedy secrets of London's high society . 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? Powder Boy will take you from the grim backstreets of London to the glamorous hills of Los Angeles and the exotic Caribbean .